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18 Cards in this Set
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the process of readmitting the former Confederate States to the Union
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Reconstruction
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offered southerners amnesty, or official pardon, for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion
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Ten Percent Plan
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made slavery illegal throughout the United States
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Thirteenth Amendment
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an agency providing relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South
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Freedman's Bureau
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laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
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Black Codes
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members of Congress who wanted the federal government to force change in the South before they could be readmitted to the Union
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Radical Republicans
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provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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a constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians
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Fourteenth Amendment
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laws that divided the South into five districts
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Reconstruction Acts
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the process used by a legislative body to bring charges or wrongdoing against a public official
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impeachment
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gave African American men the right to vote
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Fifteenth Amendment
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a secret society that opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans
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Ku Klux Klan
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an agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876; Democrats agreed to accept Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops from the south
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Compromise of 1877
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a special tax people had to pay before they could vote
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poll tax
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forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places
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segregation
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laws that enforced segregation
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Jim Crow laws
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U.S. Supreme Court case that established the separate-but-equal doctrine for public facilities
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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a system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone in return for a small portion of the crops
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sharecropping
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