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| Radical Republicans | members of Congress who favored giving African Americans full citizenship and the right to vote, also favored harsh treatment of the South. |
| 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 | served as vice-president under Lincoln; became president when Lincoln was killed in April 1865 |
| black codes | law passed by Southern states that limited the freedon of former slaves |
| civil rights | rights granted to all citizens |
| Fourteenth Amendment | States that all persons, born or naturalized in the United States 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 for part of the crops they raised |
| Ku Klux Klan | Used terror to intimidate black citizens, and to restore white power |
| lynch | A vigilante style execution, usually by KKK on blacks. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | Prohibits voting discrimination"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 resolved an 1876 election dispute; Rutherford B. Hayes became president and then removed the last federal troops from the South |
| 13th Amendment | Outlaws slavery |
| John Wilkes Booth | Lincoln's assassin |
| Ford's Theatre | Washington DC theatre where Lincoln was shot. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that seperated black people from whites in society. |
| Tunis Campbell | Organized freed slaves on Sea Islands of Georgia. |
| impeachment | Constitutional process of removing a Presdent or judge from office. |
| Carpetbagger | Derogatory name for Northerner who exploited the situation in the South for profit. |
| occupation | The stationing of troops in a conquered area. |
| Solid South | Monopoly od the Democratic Party in Southern politics after the Civil War until the 1960's. |
| plantation | big farm that used slaves to produce cash crops, like tobacco, cotton, sugar cane, or rice. |
