Match the Term with the Definition

question 19

Multiple Choice

Match the term with the definition.
-A social club of Confederate veterans that quickly developed into a paramilitary organization supporting Democrats.With too few Union troops in the South to control the region,the group went on a rampage of violence to defeat Republicans and restore white supremacy.

• A)black codes
• B)carpetbagger
• C)Civil Rights Act of 1866
• D)Compromise of 1877
• E)Fifteenth Amendment
• F)Fourteenth Amendment
• G)Freedmen's Bureau
• H)Ku Klux Klan
• I)Military Reconstruction Act
• J)Redeemers
• K)scalawag
• L)sharecropping

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Definitions:

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Euthanasia

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