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Recon - Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Reconstruction

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Process of repairing

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Thirteenth Amendment

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Abolished slavery , only a slave as a punishment for committing crime.

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Freedman

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Used to be inslaved

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Freed Bureau

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U.S. federal gov agency in 1865 to aid freedmen

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Andrew Johnson

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17th president who took after Lincoln

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Pres reconstruction

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Implemented a plan of reconstruction that gave the white south a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to the blacks in the politics of the south.

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Radical Republicans

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Uncompromising opposition to slavery before and during the civil war.

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Black Codes

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Restrictions against African Americans to restrict them after the amendments placed

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Congressional Reconstruction

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Seized control of AJ

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Civil Rights Act

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No segregation

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14th Amendment

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Citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws

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Due process

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Fair trail

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15th Amendment

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Right to vote

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Impeachment

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Accusing the president of something

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Carpetbagger

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(South perspective)

North coming down taking resources

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Scalawag

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Southerners helping northerners

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Hiram Rhodes Revels

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Minister of a African Methodist Episcopal Church

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“New South”

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Economic shift

Developing into industrial

19
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Share-Cropping

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Allows tenants to use the land in return for share of crop

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Debt peonage

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Worker pay off debt

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KKK

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White supremacy group

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Literacy tests

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Reading test given to those ex slaves so they would be excluded from voting

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Poll tax

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A fee for voting

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“Jim Crow Laws”

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Segregation

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Segregation

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Racial separation

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Plessy vs Ferguson

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Separate but equal -.-

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