Chapter 3 section 3 Flashcards
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Radical republicans
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Republicans in congress who resisted Lincoln’s plan.
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Reconstruction
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The rebuilding of the nation after the civil war.
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Amnesty
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A pardon
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Pocket veto
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Lincoln decided himself to stop the imposing
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Freedmen’s bureau
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- it was a bureau that was to feed and cloth war refugees in the south.
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Black codes
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*laws that intended to keep African Americans in the same condition similar to slavery.
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Fourteenth amendment
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- gave citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. and no state could deny the persons equality.
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Fifteenth amendment
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- no vote could be denied because of the person’s race, color or previous condition of servitude.
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Carpetbaggers
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- northerns who carried suitcases made of carpet and who wanted to take advantages of the south.
” All of these carpetbaggers being around makes me fell uncomfortable about our safety”
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Scalawags
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- white southerns who worked with republicans and supported the reconstruction.
” I think we can trust the scalawags because they are helping is with reconstruction.”
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Compromise of 1877
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- the republicans had to pull federal troops out of the south. Which ended the reconstruction.
” I’m glad the compromise of 1877 is over with, which means reconstruction is over.
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Share- croppers
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- Farmers who paid a share of their crops instead of paying cash rent.
” Many of out neighbors have become share- croppers.”
