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24 Cards in this Set
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John Wilkes Booth
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Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
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Ford's Theatre
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where Lincoln was assassinated
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Black Codes
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Laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans
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Government agency to help former slaves
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Freedman's Bureau
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Group that terrorized African Americans
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Ku Klux Klan
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Carpetbaggers
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Northerners who moved to south during Reconstruction for profit
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Scalawags
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White Southern Republicans who supported reconstruction
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Hiram Revels
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First black senator in 1870
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Granted all white southerners to vote
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Amnesty Act
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Freedmen
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Former slaves
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Conservatives
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southerners against any change in south
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Reconstruction
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rebuilding of the south after the civil war
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tax blacks had to pay in order to vote in the south
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poll tax
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Test blacks had to take in order to vote in the South
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Literacy Test
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Grandfather Clause
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increased number of white voters because of ancestry
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laws separating blacks and whites in public places
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Jim Crow Laws
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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court ruling making separation legal as long as it is equal
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13th Amendment
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Bans Slavery
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14th Amendment
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Guaranteed equal protection under the laws
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15th Amendment
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right to vote for African Americans
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16th Amendment
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Congress can pass 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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Illegal to sell alcohol in the US
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19th Amendment
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Women right to vote
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