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21 Cards in this Set
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13th Amendment
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Slavery illegal in every state of the Union. Free.
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14th Amendment
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All African Americans (including freed slaves) were to be U.S. citizens with rights equal to those of other citizens. Citizens.
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15th Amendment
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Voting rights could not be denied to a person because of their "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Vote.
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Carpetbaggers
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Northerners who went South accused of profiting from the region's economic distress and political weakness.
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Scalawags
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Southern whites who cooperated with the northerners-to share in the northerners' corrupt, moneymaking schemes.
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Ku Klus Klan
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Groups of whites formed secret societies who beat and killed African Americans.
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Tenant Farmers
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Plantation owners who rented sections of their land to tenants. In order to live and work on the land, tenant farmers provided their own seed, mules, and provisions.
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Sharecroppers
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Southerners who lacked money to pay rent or buy mules for plowing. In return for farming a piece of land, they paid a certain share of the crop to the landlord.
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Jim Crow Laws
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Laws that segregated, or separated, the races by forbidding blacks to mix with whites in public places such as railroad cars, streetcars, restaurants, and hotels.
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Black Codes
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A list of measures which limited the movements and restricted the rigths of former slaves.
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Freedmen's Bureau
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A new U.S. government agency which aided former slaves in adjusting to freedmen.
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Reconstruction
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A time period in American History set to rebuild a war torn nation immediately following the Civil War.
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Military Reconstruction
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The division of the South into 5 military districts controlled by the North and federal troops.
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Literacy Test
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Voters required to take a test demonstrating an ability to read and write.
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Poll Tax
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Citizens must pay a tax to the state before being allowed to vote.
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Grandfather Clause
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A person whose grandfather had voted bedore 1867 could vote without having to pass a literacy test.
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Transcontinental
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Spanning or crossing a continent.
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Monopoly
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A company or group having exclusive control over a type of business (like food, computer, railroad)
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Frontier
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An undeveloped area or field for discovery or research.
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Capitalism
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economic system in which the tools used to produce goods and distribute them are owned by people or companies
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Textile
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Fiber or yarm for waving or knitting into cloth.
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