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14th Ammendment
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an ammendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1868, that made all personsborn or naturalized in the United States-including former slaves-citizens of the country
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15th Amendment
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an Ammendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1870, that prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they havepreviously been slaves.
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Reconstruction
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the period of rebuilding that followed the Civil war, during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the union
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Scalawags
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a white southerner who joined the republican party after the civil war
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carpetbaggers
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a northerner who moved to the south after the civil war
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share cropping
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a system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise
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KKK
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a secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in southern states after the civil war
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Reconstruction Act 1867
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-abolisheed govt.s formed in the former confederate states -divided those states into five military districts
-set up requirements for readmission into the union |
