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21 Cards in this Set
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reconstruction
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restore the southern states to the union
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the postwar south was made up of what three groups?
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black southerners
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pardon
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an official forgiveness of a crime (10 percent plan by Lincoln)
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radical republicans
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they beleived the civil war had been fought over the moral issue of slavery.
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pocket veto
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how lincoln defeated the wade davis act
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freedmen's bureau
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helped black southerners adjust to freedom.
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black codes
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laws that restricted freedmen's rights
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14th amendment
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all persons born or naturalized in teh United states are citizens
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civil rights
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citizens personal liberties guaranteed by law, such as voting rights and equal treatment
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impeach
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charge w/ wrongdoing (Johnson's firing of Stanton)
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15th amendment
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no citizen may be denied the right to vote
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carpetbaggers
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northern republicans who moved to the postwarsouth
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scalawag
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southern republicans
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sharecropping
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farmed a portion of a family's land and the family promised a share of the crop at harvest time
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tenant farming
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didnt own land bu paid rent and they could chose which crops to plant and whe and how much to work (higher social status than sharecroppers)
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infrastructure
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the public property and services that a society uses
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KKK
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sought to eliminate the republican party in teh south by intimidating Republican voters, both white and black. Their longterm goal was to keep blacks in the role of submissive laborers.
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enforcement act of 1870
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banned the use of terror, force or bribery to prevent people from voting because of their race.
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what were the 4 main factors that ended reconstruction?
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-corruption
-the economy -violence -democrats return to power |
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solid south
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a new block of democratic voters
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compromise of 1877
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Democrats agreed to give hayes the victory in the presidential election he had not won. In return, the new president agreed to remove the remaining federal troops form southern states.
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