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11 Cards in this Set
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Radical Republicans |
Radical Republicans were a shifting group of Republican congress men, usually a substantial minority, who favored the abolition of slavery at the beginning of the civil war and later advocated harsh treatment of the defeated South. Pg #571 |
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Carpet Baggers |
Northern transplants to the south many of whom were union soldiers who stayed in the south after the war. Pg #586 |
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Scalawags |
Southern whites, mainly small landowners farmers and well off merchants and planters who supported the southern Republic party during reconstruction. Pg #586 |
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Ku Klux klan |
The ku Klux klan is perhaps the most prominent of the vigilante groups that terrorized black people in the south during the reconstruction Era founded by confederate veterans in 1866. Pg #577 |
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Fifteenth amendment |
The fifteenth amendment was passed by Congress in 1869 and guaranteed the right of American men to vote regardless of race. Pg #577 |
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NWSA |
The NWSA is the more radical wing founded and stood for national women suffrage association. The association in particular demonstrated that's self government and democratic participation in the public sphere were crucial for womens emancipation. Pg #579 |
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Wayside schools |
Makeshift classrooms organized by African Americans in rural areas. A bureau described these as Wayside schools and he was amazed in the number of them. Pg #582 |
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Oliver Howard |
General Oliver Howard was the chief commissioner of the freed man bureau and he observed that many supposed that the government would divide among the lands of the conquered owners, and furnish them to allow them to begin the life as a independent farmer. Pg #582 |
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Slaughter house case ls |
Group of cases resulting in one sweeping decision by the US Supreme Court in 1873 that contradicted the intent of the 14th amendment by decreeing that most citizenship rights remained under state nit federal control. Pg #590 |
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John Rockefeller |
In the late 1870s John Rockefeller had a oil company that controlled almost 90 percent of the nation's oil refining compacity. Oil refining enjoyed a huge expansion at the time. Pg #594 |
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Redeemer |
Redeemer Democrats was a self-imposed term used by nineteenth-century southern Democrats fond of talking about "redeeming" their states. Pg #591 |
