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17 Cards in this Set
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Freemen
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African Americans that were set free after the 13th amendment.
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Thirteenth Amendment
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The amendment added to the constitution in 1865 that outlawed slavery.
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Black Codes
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Any code or law that limited the rights of African American "Freedmen."
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Fourteenth Amendment
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The amendment added to the constitution in 1868 that forbade any state to deny a person's rights based on color.
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Fifteenth Amendment
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The amendment added to the constitution in 1870 that outlawed denying the right to vote to any man based on color.
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Scalawag
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A native white Southerner who collaborated with the occupying forces during Reconstruction.
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Carpetbagger
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A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics.
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Conservatives
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During Reconstruction, White southerners who resisted change.
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Ku Klux Klan
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A secret organization in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of blacks and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent crimes.
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Sharecropper
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A tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
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Poll Tax
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A tax put on polls that was generally too high for a former slave to pay.
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Literacy Test
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A test that would be required for people to vote in the South, which was also one-sided and used to keep former slaves from voting, where a white person would listen to an African American read a hard document and judge whether they read it right or if they understood what they were reading.
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Grandfather Clause
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A clause that said "if your grandfather before you could vote, so can you," that let illiterate Whites who couldn't pay the poll tax vote.
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Segregation
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The unfair separation of Whites and African Americans used with the Jim Crow Laws.
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Jim Crow Laws
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Laws that kept Whites and Black "separate but equal."
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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The court case in which the Supreme Court declared the Jim Crow Laws respectable, saying Blacks were to be kept "separate but equal."
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"New South"
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Term that described the south in the late 1800 when efforts were made in order to expand the economy by building up industry.
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