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25 Cards in this Set
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John Wilkes Booth
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LINCOLN'S ASSASSIN!!!!!
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Ford's Theater
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Theater in DC. Place of Lincoln's assassination.
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Black Codes
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Southern laws that limited the rights of african americans after the civil war
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Freedmen's Bureau
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government agency founded during reconstruction to help former slaves (work)
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Ku Klux Klan
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secret society organized in the south after civil war to reassert white supremacy by using VIOLENCE!!!!
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Carpet Baggers
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uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the south after the civil war
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Scalawags
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white southener who supported the reublicans during reconstruction
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Hiram Revels
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First black SENATOR
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Amnesty Act
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Government Pardon
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Freedmen
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men and women who were slaves
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Conservatives
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during reconstruction, they were ppl who didnt want change
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Reconstruction
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rebuilding the south after the civil war
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Poll Tax
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tax required before a person can vote
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Literacy Test
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test to see if a person can read and write, used in the past to restrict voting rights
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Grandfather Clause
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Law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his father had been eligible to vote 1/1/1867
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Jim Crow Laws
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laws that separated ppl of different races in public places in the south
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Plessy Vs. Ferguson
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an 1896 court case where the supreme court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were EQUAL
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13th amendment
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an 1865 amendment that banned slavery throughout the USA
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14th amendment
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an 1868 amendment that guarantees equal protection of laws to the USA
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15th amendment
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an 1869 amendment that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote in the USA
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16th amendment
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Congress can pass an income tax
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17th amendment
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Direct election of senators
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18th amendment
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1917 amendment that made it illegal to sell alcohol (NO MORE)
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19th amendment
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Grants women the right to vote
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Reconstruction
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a period starting in 1867 when the republicans who had control in both houses of congress, took charge of reconstruction. (RADICAL, DUDE!)
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