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| 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 Americans full citizenship and the right to vote |
| 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 | an ammendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1868, that made all persons, born or naturalized in the United States- including former slaves-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 in return for a part of the 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; the group called for a "racially and morally pure" America |
| lynch | to kill on the spot without a trial as punishment for a supposed crime |
| Fifteenth Amendment | passed in 1870, this ammendment 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 | the agreement that resolved an 1876 election dispute; Rutherford B. Hayes became president and then removed the last federal troops from the South |
