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25 Cards in this Set
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by who on April 14, 1865
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John Wilkes Booth
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who became president when Lincoln died
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Vice President Andrew Johnson
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An amendment passed by congress that outlawed slavery in all parts of the United States.
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The Thirteen Amendment
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The former slaves were called
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Freedmen
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The United States goverment set up the __________ to help former slaves
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Freedmen's Bureau
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the process of setting up new goverments inthe former Confederate states and readmitting them to the Union
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Reconstruction
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The Freedmen's Bureau-
When the Civil War was over all slaves were free. |
When the Civil War was over all slaves were free. The former slaves had to find their own food and clothes and shelter
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The United States Goverment set up the ____________ to help former slaves . What did it do to help the former slaves?
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Freedmen's Bureau
It gave food to the hungry It brought in teachers to teach the freemen how to read and write It tried to find jobs and houses for those who needed them |
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United States Congressmen who wanted to punidh the south were
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Radical Republicans
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The Reconstruction Act
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1.Blacks and whites who had not been confederate military or goverment leaders were to write a new constitution
2. The Constitution had been approed by the United States Congress 3. Alabama had to ratify the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution- the fourteebth amendment gave blacks full rights as citizens. |
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Alabama Blacks elected to the United States Congress Were-
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Benjamin Sterling Turner
Jeremiah Haralson James Thomas Rapier |
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Northern Republicans who came to the south during reconsruction
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Carpetbaggers
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Were Southerners who worked with the Unoin military goverment.
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Scalawags
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This was a sercert group that was formed in order to scare white and blacks republicans so they would not vote
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Ku Klux Klan
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If they could not scare people they became violent and sometimes
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beat and killed them
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KU KLUX KLAN comes from a greek word that means
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a circle
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the KU KLUX KLAN wore white robes and hoods to conceal their
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Identity
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Why did the Alabamians want the reconstruction to end
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So they could take over there own state qoverment again.
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A statement added to change the consiution or to make clear
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Amendment
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Chosen by vote
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Elected
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Former slaves
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Freemen
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stables where horses are kept for there owners
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livery
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extreme
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rdical
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approve
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rafity
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murered a person particularly an important one by surprise.
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assassinated
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