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22 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction
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when the federal government struggled with how to return the eleven southern states ot the Union, rebuild the South's ruined economy, and promote the rights of former slaves
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"Radical Republicans"
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insisted that the Confederates had committed crimes - by enslaving African Americans and by entangling the nation in war
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Wade-Davis Bill
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required that a majority of a state's prewar voters swear loyalty to the Union before the process of restoration could begin
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Freedmen's Bureau
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the Bureau of Refugees, freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
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Andrew Johnson
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the President after Lincoln died
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black codes
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laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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created federal guarantees of civil rights and superseded any state laws that limited them
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Fourteenth Amendment
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guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens
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impeach
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to charge a president with wrongdoing in office
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Fifteenth Amendment
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forbidded any state from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
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Scalawags
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white men who had been locked out of pre-Civil War politics by their wealthier neighbors
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"carpetbaggers"
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northerners who relocated to the South
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segregation
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separation of the races which Southherners opted for
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integration
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combinining public schools of both races
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sharecropping
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system in which a landowner dictated the crop and provided the sharecropper with a place to live, as weel as seeds and tools, in return for a "share" of the harvested crop
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Share-tenancy
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a system like sharecropping, except that the farmworker chose what crop he would plant and bought his own supplies
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tenant farming
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system in which the tenant paid cash rent to a landowner and then was free to choose and manage his own crop - and free to choose where he would live
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Ku Klux Klan
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a group formed in Tennessee which terrified African Americans
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Enforcement Acts
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made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen's right to vote
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Redeemers
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politicians who aimed to repair or "redeem" the South in the eyes of Congress
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Rutherford B. Haynes
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Becomes president in the Election of 1866
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Compromise of 1877
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Hayes was elected President in this compromise
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