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17 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction
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period from 1865-1867 when the states of the Confederacy were controlled by the federal government before being readmitted to the Union |
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Freedman’s Bureau |
federal bureau in operation after the Civil War that helped former enslaved people and war refugees with food, medical, and other aids well as schooling |
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pardon |
official forgiveness of a person for a crime |
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Fourteenth Amendment |
constitutional amendment of 1868 that guarantees Civil Rights and equal protection of laws to all citizens |
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Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
legislation that divided the post Civil War South into military districts governed by the North |
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impeach |
to formally charge a public official with misconduct; brought by the lower house in a legislative body |
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Fifteenth Amendment |
constitutional amendment of 1870 guaranteeing all citizens the right to vote |
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debt peonage |
labor system common in the South after the civil War in which debt was used to keep former workers on the land |
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Credit Mobilier |
a dummy corporation created by the stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad , which allowed them to pay themselves with federal grants to build the railroad
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United States Sanitary Commission |
Northern women’s group in the Civil War that provided aid to soldiers |
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Andrew Johnson |
17th president of the United States, 1865-1869, clashed with Radical Republicans on Reconstruction programs; was impeached, then acquitted, in 1868 |
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carpetbagger |
Northern Republican who moved to the South during Reconstruction to profit from unstable social conditions
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scalawag
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southern white who became a Republican during Reconstruction to benefit from unstable social conditions in that area |
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sharecropper
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farmer who grows crops on land owned by someone else and gives a share of the crops produced to the landowner in return for use of the land and supplies |
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tenant farmer |
farmer who pays cash for rental of land |
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Ku Klux Klan |
organization formed in the South in 1866, which used lynching and violence to intimidate and control African Americans and others |
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Rutherford B. Hayes |
19th president of the US, 1877-1881; promised to withdraw Union Troops from the South in order to end dispute over his election; attacked spoils system |
