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Battle of Vicksburg |
The union split the Confederacy in half. Cut off resources to confederacy |
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Freedmen Bureau |
Congresses attempt to help ex slaves. Helped feed, clothe, educate, and provide medical care. Participated in the redistribution of land |
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Black Codes |
Laws made by state legislature which allowed officials to apprehend unemployed blacks and fine them, then hire them out to pay these fines. Forbade black from working as anything but domestic servants or plantation workers |
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Crop-Lien System |
A credit system widely used in the south after the Civil War in which farmers promised a portion of their future crops in exchange for supplies from local merchants |
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Southern agriculture (end of 19th century) |
Textile, Tobacco, and iron manufacturing. Were making their products instead of shipping them off. |
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Atlanta Compromise |
Booker T Washington gave speech telling blacks to focus on self improvement rather than political equality |
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Jim Crow Laws |
Did not allow blacks to vote and made segregation legal |