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23 Cards in this Set
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Freedmen |
African Americans who had once been enslaved (Former slaves) |
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Sharecropping |
Landowners rented land to poor both white and African American farmers. In return,the farmers promised to give landowners part of their crop once it was haversted |
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Credit |
They did not have to pay for stuff right away |
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Reconstruction |
or rebuilding of the south |
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Impeach |
To accuse a President of being unfit to hold office |
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scalawags |
an insult meaning "old useless horse" to white southerners who stayed loyal to the north |
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Carpetbaggers |
Northers who cane south to help freedmen or make money |
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Segregation |
Laws passed to keep the races apart |
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Black codes |
restricted blacks from going places,vote,jobs,not treated fairly |
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Sharecropping 2 |
Couldn't take peoples land,some fell deeper in dept because they couldn't pay enough credit |
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Segregation 2 |
Unfair treatment |
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Johnson |
Impeached,wanted Black codes to be stronger, raised arguments,letting conf. leaders take charge |
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Klu Klux Klan |
murdered blacks that tried to run in office |
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Freedmans Bureau |
Tried to take land away then give it to the freedmen |
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13th amendment |
Slavery prohibited throughout the U.S. |
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14th amendment |
Equal protection of the laws to U.S. citizens |
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15th amendment |
No citizen shall be denied the right to vote no matter the race |
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Missouri Compromise |
Made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. Worked for thirty years 1820 |
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Compromise of 1850 |
California became a free state and the Fugitive slave law strengthened 1850 |
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Uncle Toms Cabin |
Written by Harriet B Stowe Told the north of the cruelty of slavery Banned in parts of the south |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act |
1857 Settlers could vote on being slave or free Many skirmishes break out People rush to settle in new territories. |
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Dred Scott Decision |
1857 Sued for his freedom and lost. Slavery could exist anywhere. There were no real free states. |
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Lincoln Elected President |
1860 First Southern state (South Carolina) secedes [leaves] and others follow. |
