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Chapter 18 Vocab-S.S

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Radical Republicans A congressman who, after the Civil War, favored using the government to create a new order in the South and to give African Americans full citizenship and the right to vote.
Reconstruction The process the U.S. government used to readmit the Confederate states to the Union after the Civil War.
Freedmen's Bureau A federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War.
Andrew Johnson When Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865, his vice-president became President. He was a Democrat.
Black Codes A law passed by the Southern states that limited the freedom of former slaves.
Civil Rights Rights granted to all citizens.
Fourteenth Amendment An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1868, that made all persons born or naturalized in the United States-including former slaves-citizens of the country.
Freedmen's School A school set up to educate newly freed African Americans.
Sharecropping A system in which landowners gave farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raised.
Ku Klux Klan A group formed in 1866 that wanted to restore Democratic control of the south and to keep former slaves powerless.
Lynch To kill a victim on the spot without a trial as punishment for a supposed crime.
Fifteenth Amendment Passed in 1870, this amendment to the U.S. Constitution stated that citizens could not be stopped from voting "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
Panic of 1873 A financial crisis in which banks closed and the stock market collapsed.
Compromise of 1877 The agreement that solved an 1876 election dispute: Rutherford B. Hayes became president and then removed the last federal troops from the south.
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