Chapter 5, American History 10

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Pardon

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The Official forgiveness of a crime.

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Civil Rights

Back 2

The rights of full citizens under the law of their government.

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14th Amendment

Back 3

Declares that all persons born in the USA are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the law.

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Impeach

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To charge an official of wrongdoing.

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Carpetbagger

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Northern whites who moved to the South to work as leaders during reconstruction.

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Scalawag

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White Southerners who supported reconstruction policies after the war usually for their own self interest.

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Black Codes

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These were Southern law made to restrict the freedoms of newly freed slaves.

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15th Amendment

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Stated that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude.

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Infrastructure

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The public property and services that a society uses.

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Corruption

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Dishonesty, or improper behavior in people of authority.

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Radical Republicans

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A radical group within the Republican party that wanted Freed men to have rights.

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Freedmen's Bureau

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A Federal agency set up in 1865 to provide food, education, and medical care to freed slaves in the South.

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Sharecropping

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When a person works fields rented from the land owner, pays rent and repays loans by turning over part of the crop to the land owner.

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Tenant Farming

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When a person pays rent for the land they are farming.

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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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A secret society created by white Southerners in 1866 to use terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.

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Enforcement Act of 1870

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This was an anti-klan law that banned the use of force, fear, or bribery to prevent people from voting based on their race.

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Hiram Revels

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He was the first African American to be elected to the Senate. (1870)

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Solid South

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This was a group of Southern Democrats who worked together to block reconstruction policies from going through the legislature.

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Slaughterhouse Cases

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One of a number of Supreme court cases that worked to end reconstruction by putting the protection of Civil Rights into the hands of the State governments.

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Compromise of 1877

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This marked the end of Reconstruction. The deal made between Republicans and Democrats that if Rutherford B. Hayes became President that the government would remove all the remaining troops from the South.