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15 Cards in this Set
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Sharecropping
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• A system of farming in witch a tenant farmer give a share of his crop to the farm owner instead of paying rent
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14th Amendment: date passed by Congress
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• 1866
1. Defined national citizenship 2. Permitted representation in Congress to be reduced if a state interfered with a citizen’s right to vote. 3. Denied former Confederate officials the right to hold office 4. Declared Confederate debts invalid |
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1876 Election
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• Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President
• Didn’t produce clear winner • Deal: goes to House of Representatives • Democrats and House of Representatives agreed that Republican Rutherford B. Hayes if he agreed to withdraw from south (aka martial law) • Radical Republicans in Congress wanted racial equality • Southern whites were all Democrats |
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Congressional Reconstruction
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• Punish confederate leaders
• Make former slaves citizens with equal rights: 1. 13th Amendment: abolish slavery 2. 14the Amendment: born here, automatically a citizen; equal treatment for all citizens 3. 15th Amendment: votes for black men |
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Black Codes
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• Can’t vote if grandpa can’t vote, poll, taxes, etc.
• Series of rules that varied from state to state • Restrict people of color’s civil right • Wage rates, jobs, were can/can’t go, where to gather + II’s • Can’t vote if grandpa can’t vote, poll, taxes, etc. • Series of rules that varied from state to state • Restrict people of color’s civil right • Wage rates, jobs, were can/can’t go, where to gather + II’s |
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Freedman’s Bureau
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• Slavery at risk during the Civil War
• Federal Government Program: wanted to educate former slaves by teaching literacy |
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Redeemers
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• Pro-segregation southern whites
• Democrats • Created Black Codes |
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KKK
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white people who formed a group to persecute blacks
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NAACP
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• 1909
• Fight against racial segregation • Fight legal cases • Little Rock Nine came from NAACP • NAACP= National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
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Thomas Moss
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• Ran a successful business; grocery store
• Late 1800s • He was a black man |
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Lynching
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• The hanging, burning, or shooting of a person without a trial
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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• 1896
• stated that racial segregation was legal |
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Booker T. Washington
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• 1881
• wanted to get along with racist whites, but worked privately to make people equal • Gradualist |
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W.E.B. DuBois
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• Demand equality
• Not too diplomatic- outspoken • Black civil right’s leader • “Immediate-ist” |
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Chicago Race Riot
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• Northern city
• Race riot because of the segregation problems • Segregation problems got bigger until it became a riot |