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21 Cards in this Set
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Freedmen's Bureau
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Fedral agency set up to help former enslaved people.
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Freedmen's Schools
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Schools set up to educate newly freed African Americans.
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Ku Klux Klan
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Secret group that used violence to try to restore Democratic control of the South and keep African Americans powerless.
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Samuel J. Tilden
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Governor of New York in 1876.
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Thaddeus Stevens
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Supported ending slavery and was against it.
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Scalawags
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White Southerners who supported radical reconstruction.
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Carpetbaggers
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Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War.
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Sharecropper
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Farmers rented land on credit.
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Tenant/Contract Farmer
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Paid to farm someone elses farm.
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Andrew Johnson
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17th President, liked alcohol, fierd Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, 1st impeached President.
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Amnesty
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Official pardon.
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Black Codes
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Laws that limited the freedom of former enslaved people.
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Disenfranchise
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Do not have the right to vote.
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Impeach
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To bring an accusation against, to charge with a crime or misdemeanor, to remove from office.
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Reconstruction Act of 1867
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Compromise of 1867
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agreement that decided the 1876 presidential election.
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Civil Rights
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The rights that we had after the Civil War.
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Segregation
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Seperating people; typically based on race.
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What is the difference between the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution?
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13th- Ended slavery. 14th- Defines citizenship. Every citizen has equal protection of the law. 15th- Vote for African American men.
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What Act led Congress to impeach President Johnson?
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He broke the Tenture of Office Act of 1867.
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Why did the plantation owners experience such an economic blow ater the war?
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They had lost their free workforce (slaves.)
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