Question | Answer |
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 american full citizenship and thee right to vote. |
Reconstruction | the process the U.S. government used to readmit the confederate states to the Union after the civil war. |
Freemen's Bureau | a federal an agency set up to help former slaves after the civil war. |
Andrew Johnson | Lincoln Vice President, but when Lincoln was killed he become our 17th president and was a democrat. |
Black codes | a law passed by 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 U.S.- including former slaves- citizens of the country. |
Freemen's school | a school setup to educate newly freed African Americans. |
Sharecropping | a system in which landowers save farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of he 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 | killing blacks and doing on the spot with out a trial. |
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 | he agreement that resolved an 1876 election dispute: Rutherford B. Hayes became president and hen removed federal troops from the south. |