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WW2 Flashcards

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Radical

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Extreme

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Amnesty

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A pardon

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Freedmen

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Former enslaved people

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Black codes

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A series of laws aimed to control freed men and women and enable plantation owners to exploit African American workers

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Override

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To defeat

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Impeach

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To formally charge with wrongdoing

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Reconstruction

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The period of rebuilding the south after the civil war and the various plans for accomplishing the rebuilding

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Freedmens bureau

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An agency to help former enslaved people

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Lincoln’s assassination

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Shot in fords theater by John Wilkes booth

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Vice President

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Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln’s assassination.

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Thirteenth amendment

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Abolished slavery in the United States

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Fourteenth amendment

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Granted full citizenship to all people born in the United States

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Fifteenth amendment

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Granted African American males the right to vote

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Scalawags

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Scoundrels or worthless rascals

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Carpetbaggers

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They moved south with cheap suitcases made of carpet fabric

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Ku klux klan

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Organization to oppose African Americans rights

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Sharecroppers

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African Americans who couldn’t afford to buy their own land worked as sharecroppers

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Integrated

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Included both whites and blacks together by law

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Reconciliation

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Restoring the relationship

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Amnesty act

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Passed by congress in May 1862

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Commission

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A group of 7 republicans, 7 democrats, and 1 independent

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Literacy test

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Required for voters in some states

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Poll tax

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Was a fee for voters to pay

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Cash crops

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Growing crops for profit.

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Eddie

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Memes,

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