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23 Cards in this Set
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Redeemers
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Group of people that helped the republicans
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Radical Republicans
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Republicans that wanted to help the south make social changes
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scalawags
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name given to white union southerners translates to “mean folk”
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carpetbaggers
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northerners who moved to the south with bags made of carpet
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Andrew Johnson
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He was vice president and got bumped up after Lincoln's assassination but was soon impeached
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amnesty
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A pardon from the government
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Jim Crow laws
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reinforcement in segregation
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Gave equality to african americans
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Reconstruction
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the act of pulling back together the union
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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agency to help poor people in the south
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Ku Klux Klan
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used terror and violence to be against equal rights
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sharecropping
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the idea of laboring instead of owning a real farm
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Black Codes
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limited freedom for african americans
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Reconstruction Acts
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put southern states under union control
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Thirteenth Amendment
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outlawed slavery
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General Amnesty Act of 1872
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repayment of section
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poll tax
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a tax payed to vote
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Fourteenth Amendment
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citizenship for blacks
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Panic of 1873
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financial crisis that led to depression
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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1896 U.S. supreme court case that established separate and equal rights
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segregation
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forced separation of people of different races
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Compromise of 1877
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agreement to settle the presidential election
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Fifteenth Amendment
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1870 gave African american men the right to vote
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