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19 Cards in this Set
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What caused the creation of the Liberal Republicans? |
SCANDALS in Grant's Administration |
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Ways in which the Freedmen's Bureau helped African Americans |
FIND FAMILY, SHELTER, JOBS, FOOD & EDUCATION |
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What did Ulysses S. Grant do to reduce the attacks of the KKK? |
Passed ANTI-KLAN LAWS |
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What happened to Native Americans after the Civil War? |
Moved onto RESERVATIONS |
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What law gave people land if they would build a home on it and farm it for 5 years? |
HOMESTEAD ACT |
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Laws passed in the South immediately after the Civil War that angered people in the North? |
*BLACK CODES *JIM CROW LAWS *SEGREGATION |
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What determines the amount of electoral votes given in each state? |
POPULATION |
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A system where the landowner provided seed & tools to a farm worker which left the farm worker in debt year after year |
SHARECROPPING |
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Gave each state land to sell and use the $ to start public colleges teaching agriculture and the mechanical arts |
MORRILL ACT |
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After the Civil Rights Act, why did they create the 14th amendment to the Constitution ensuring African Americans citizenship? |
To protect CIVIL RIGHTS by the CONSTITUTION |
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An event that caused BANKS to CLOSE, an economic depression, and caused Northerners to stop focusing on reconstruction |
PANIC OF 1873 |
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Plan for Reconstruction that divided the South into 5 military districts |
CONGRESSIONAL PLAN |
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Group formed to stop African Americans from having equal rights |
Ku Klux Klan |
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A law that pushed assimilation among Native Americans and almost destroyed their culture -- Gave about 100 million acres of tribal land to the whites. |
DAWES ACT |
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Why were white women angry about the 15th amendment? |
Because white women still did not get to VOTE |
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A Supreme Court case that ruled that only the states, not the federal government, could punish individuals who violated the civil rights of African Americans |
US vs CRUIKSHANK |
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The compromise worried Abolitionists because they thought the South would not respect the rights of African Americans and officially ended reconstruction |
COMPROMISE OF 1877 |
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Who led the Radical Republicans? |
THADEUS STEVENS & CHARLES SUMNER |
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The first African American elected to Congress |
HIRAM RHODES REVELS |
