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18 Cards in this Set
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Freedmen
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Men and women who had been slaves.
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Reconstruction
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The rebuilding of the South.
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Thirteenth Amendment
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Banned slavery throughout the nation.
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Black Codes
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Laws that severely limited the rights of freedman.
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Guaranteed citizens equal protection of laws and forbade states to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
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Fifteenth Amendment
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Forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of race color or previous condition to servitude.
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Scalawags
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A word southerners used to describe Republicans as small scruffy horses.
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Carpetbaggers
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A word to describe notherners who were moving southward. (they were in such a hurry they flung their stuff into carpet bags).
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Conservatives
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Resented the changes imposed by Congress and enforced by the military.
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Ku Klux Klan
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KKK worked to keep African American's and white republicans out of office.
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Sharecropper
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Someone who rented and farmed a plot of land.
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Poll Tax
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Required voters to pay a fee each time they voted.
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Literacy Test
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A test that required voters to read and explain a section of the constitution.
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Grandfather Clause
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Allowed people to vote if their grandparents were able to bot on January 1st, 1867
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Segregation
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A legal separation of races.
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Jim Crow Laws
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Laws that separated blacks and whites in public.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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A case that the supreme court ruled that segregation was legal as long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
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New South
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The south using its vast natural resources to build up its own industry instead of depending on the North.
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