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Chapter 18 Vocab Vk
| Definition | Word |
|---|---|
| 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 U.S 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 African Americans full voting rights | Fifteenth Amendment |
| Financial panic caused by failure of several powerful banks | Panic of 1837 |
| Deal between Republicans and Democrats that allowed Rutherford Hayes to become president | Compromise of 1877 |