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36 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction
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Rebuilding the former Confederate states and reuniting the nation.
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Amnesty
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A pardon for all of the Confederate soldiers and sympathizers. Except high ranking officials and a few others.
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John Wilkes Booth
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Shot Lincoln at Fords Theater, along with several others planned to overthrow the government. His plans failed when the others backed out at the last minute or were exposed.
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Andrew Johnson
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Lincolns replacement after the assassination. A democrat and a one time slave holder.
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Black Codes
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They closely resembled pre-civil war codes. They were laws that limited the freedom of former slaves.
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Fredrick Douglass
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He was a freed black man who wanted to end slavery and was a speaker on this topic. He was a major abolitionist leader.
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The Freedmen's Bureau
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It was to aid the millions of southerners left homeless and hungry by the war.
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The Fourteenth Amendment
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It required states to equalize citizen ship to African Americans and all people born in the U.S.
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The Reconstruction Acts
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It divided the former confederacy into 5 military districts
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Ulysses S. Grant
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He was elected president but he lacked the political experience but was a popular war hero.
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The Fifteenth Amendment
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It said that no one would be denied the right to vote.
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Carpetbaggers
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The nickname for the Republicans among many white southerners.
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Scalawags
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Scoundrels, they were people in the south who had backed the Union cause and now supported reconstruction.
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The Ku Klux Klan
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A racist group of whites who wore robes and masks who were set up to keep African Americans from voting.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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He was elected president but he lacked the political experience but was a popular war hero.
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The Fifteenth Amendment
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It said that no one would be denied the right to vote.
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Carpetbaggers
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The nickname for the Republicans among many white southerners.
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Scalawags
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Scoundrels, they were people in the south who had backed the Union cause and now supported reconstruction.
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The Ku Klux Klan
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A racist group of whites who wore robes and masks who were set up to keep African Americans from voting.
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Enforcement Acts
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Three laws that empowered the federal government to combat terrorism with military force and prosecute guilty individuals.
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Panic of 1873
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A severe economic depression that scared people badly all over the nation.
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The Civil Rights Acto fo 1875
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It prohibited businesses that served the public from discriminating against African Americans.
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The Redeemers
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The supporters of white-controlled governments.
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Samuel J. Tilden
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A democrat from New York. He ran for presidency against Hayes. He lost.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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A republican from Ohio who ran against Tilden and lost in the general vote. The electoral vote brought him in to office.
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Compromise of 1877
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In return for the acceptance of Hayes they agreed to withdraw the remaining federal troops from the South.
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Sharcropping
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A system where a farmer worked some land in return for a share of the crop, a cabin, seed, tools, and a mule.
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Crop-Linen System
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It was where merchants who sold people goods on credit added outstanding debts to their bills the following year.
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Poll Taxes
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Fixed taxes on voting.
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Literacy Tests
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Tests that barred those who could not read from voting.
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Segregation
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Separation of the races.
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Jim Crow Laws
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The laws that were designed to enforce segregation.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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A lawsuit over a black man who denied a seat in a first class railway car to a white man. Ruled separate but equal did not violate the fourteenth amendment.
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Madame C. J. Walker
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A leading African American entrepreneur who was one of the first women in the U.S. to become a millionaire.
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Booker T. Washington
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He was a black man who believed that African Americans should concentrate on achieving economic independence, which he saw as the key to political and social equality.
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Ida B. Wells
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She focused her attention on stopping the lynching of African Americans.
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