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Ch. 18 Vocab JX
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The process of readmitting Confederate states to the Union. | Reconstruction |
| Organization that helped former slaves. | Freedmen's Bureau |
| 17th president | Andrew Johnson |
| Laws limiting freedom of former slaves | black codes |
| Congressmen who wanted the federal government to change Southern society. | Radical Republicans |
| Rights granted to all citizens | civil rights |
| Amendment providing equal rights for all US citizens | Fourteenth Amendment |
| A school set up to educate former slaves | freedmen's school |
| System in which a landowner provided land to a farmer in return for a share of the crop. | sharecropping |
| Group that sought to keep former slaves powerless. | Ku Klux Klan |
| To punish a person by killing him or her without a trial. | lynch |
| Gave Afican Americans full voting rights | Fifteenth Amendment |
| Financial panic caused by failure of several powerful banks. | Panic of 1873 |
| Deal between Replublicans and Democrats that allowed Rutherford Hayes to become president. | Compromise of 1877 |