Vocab Flashcards
1
Q
Reconstruction
A
The period after the Civil War to rebuild the South
2
Q
Border State
A
Border from the North and South
3
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Amnesty
A
A Pardon
4
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Radical
A
Extreme
5
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Freedmen
A
Former enslaved people
6
Q
Share croppers
A
People who worked land owned by someone else and who is paid with a share of crops
7
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Poll Tax
A
A tax that had to be paid before a person could vote Outlawed by the 24th Amendment to the Constitution
8
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Literacy Test
A
Required voters to read and write at a specific level used to prevent African American from voting-outlawed in laws
9
Q
White Southerners
A
Scala wags (scoundrels,rascals,or traitors)
10
Q
Segregation
A
Separating people of diffrent races in public places
11
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Jim Crow Laws
A
Laws,such as segregation laws,that trapped southern African American in a hopeless situation
