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17 Cards in this Set
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scalawag |
a white southerner who joined the republican party after the civil war |
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Freedmen's Bureau |
had been established by congress to provide food, clothing, hospitals, legal protection and education for former salves and poor whites in the south in 1865 |
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Reconstruction |
the period during which the U.S. began to rebuild after the Civil War |
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Radical Republicans |
they wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders, they wanted African Americans to be given full citizenship and the right to vote |
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Andrew Johnson |
he announced Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, since Lincoln was assassinated, his plan differed from Lincoln's |
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Fourteenth Amendment |
makes all persons born or naturalized in the united states, including former slaves, citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws |
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Fifteenth Amendment |
prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color because they have previously been slaves |
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carpetbagger |
a northerner who moved to the south after the civil war |
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carpetbagger |
a northerner who moved to the south after the civil war |
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Hiram Revels |
the first African American senator |
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Fourteenth Amendment |
makes all persons born or naturalized in the united states, including former slaves, citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws |
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Fifteenth Amendment |
prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color because they have previously been slaves |
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carpetbagger |
a northerner who moved to the south after the civil war |
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Hiram Revels |
the first African American senator |
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sharecropping |
landowners divided their land and assigned each head of household a few acres, along with seed and tools |
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Ku Klux Klan (KKK) |
a secret organization the used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in southern states after the civil way |
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Ku Klux Klan (KKK) |
a secret organization the used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in southern states after the civil war |
