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Ch 18 EC
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | The process of readmitting Confederate states to the Union |
| Freedmen's bureau | Organization that hepled former slaves |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president, became president after Lincoln assasinated |
| black codes | laws limiting the freedom of former slaves |
| Radical republicans | congressmen who wanted the federal government to change Southern society |
| civil rights | rights granted to all citizens |
| 14th amendment | amendment providing equal rights for all US citizens |
| freedmen's school | a school set up to educate former slaves |
| sharecropping | system in which a landowner provided land to a farmer in return for a share of the crop |
| Klu Klux Klan | group that sought to keep former slaves powerless |
| lynch | to punish a person by killing him or her without a trial |
| 15th amendment | gave african americans full voting rights |
| Panic of 1873 | financial panic caused by failure of several pwerful banks |
| Compromise of 1877 | deal between republicans and democrats that allowed Rutherford Hayes to become president |