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16 Cards in this Set
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Black Codes
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Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War
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Carpet Bagger
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Uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the south after the Civil War
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Conservatives
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During reconstruction, white southerners who resisted change
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Fifteenth Amendment
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an 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race
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Fourteenth Amendment
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an 1868 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws
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Freedmen
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men and women who had been slaves
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Grandfather Clause
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law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867
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Jim Crow Laws
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laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South
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Ku Klux Klan
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secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence
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Literacy Test
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examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict young voting rights
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"New South"
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term to describe the South in the late 1800's when efforts were made to expand the economy by building up industry
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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an 1896 supreme court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as lpon as the facilities were equal
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Poll Tax
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tax required before a person can vote
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Scalawag
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white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
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Segregation
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legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
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Share Cropper
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person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
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