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23 Cards in this Set
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Black Codes |
restricted from going places, vote, jobs, not treated fairly |
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Sharecropping |
couldn't take other people's land, some fell deeper in debt because they couldn't pay enough credit |
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Segregation |
unfair treatment |
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Johnson |
impeached - wanted black codes to be stronger, raised argument letting confederate leaders take charge |
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Klu Klux Klan |
murdered African Americans who tried to run in the government |
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Freedmans Bureau |
try to take land away |
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1st amendment |
slavery prohibited throughout the U.S. |
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14th amendment |
equal protection of the law to U.S. citizens |
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15th amendment |
no citizen shall be denied the right to vote no matter what race |
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freedmen |
someone who is newly free - they were freed men |
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sharecropping |
people who rented land and had to give the landowner 20% of their crops It also helped the landowners so they earned money owners are letting some people rent their land |
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credit |
let people pay for stuff after they get it |
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Reconstruction |
It meant rebuilding the South. It also was the rebuilding of family, friends, and homes. |
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Impeach |
To accuse a president of being unfit of holding his job |
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Scalawags |
It means, 'old useless house' It ws used as an insult. It also meant traitor - an insult to southerners on the northern side. |
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Carpetbaggers |
Was someone who helped freed people of make money They were called this because of the bags |
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Segregation |
It was a law that kept the races apart. It didn't let them eat, ride, or learn together |
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Missouri Compromise |
1820 It made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state because the same amount of states was needed. It worked for 30 years. |
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Compromise of 1850 |
California became a free state. Fugitive slave law strengthened. |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin |
1852 Written by Harriet Beecher Stove. It told the North about slavery in the South. 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 (Southern Carolina) secedes [leaves] and others follow. |
