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15 Cards in this Set

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freedmen
men and women who had been slaves
Reconstruction
rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
Plessy vs. Ferguson
the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal as long as facilities were equal
amnesty
a government pardon
Freedman's Bureau
a government agency whose job was to help former slaves
Thirteenth Amendment
banned slavery throughout the nation
black codes
These are laws that the South legislature passed that severely limited the rights of freedmen
Fourteenth Amendment
granted citizenship to all persons who were born in the U.S.
impeach
to bring formal charges against a president
Fifteenth Amendment
forbade any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race
poll taxes
required that voters pay a fee each time they voted
segregation
legal separation of races
Jim Crow laws
laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South
sharecroppers
person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
Ku Klux Klan
secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to encourage white supremacy through violent acts