Reconstruction Acts of 1867 - created five military districts, required Congressional approval for new state constitutions, Confederate states give voting rights to all men, and former Confederate states must approve the 14th amendment, Radical Republicans - Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after Civil War, carpetbagger - Northerner who traveled south to make money off of the Reconstruction, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment - all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and guaranteed equal protection, 15th Amendment, Freedmen's Bureau - Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War, sharecropping - system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops, transcontinental railroad, bank failure - Banks did not have enough money to cover the massive number of withdrawals, impeachment - An action by the House of Representatives to accuse the president, vice president, or other civil officers of the United States of committing "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.", Black Codes - Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves,

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