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