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15 Cards in this Set
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13th amendment |
abolished slavery |
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14th amendment |
If you were born in USA you were a citizen |
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15th amendment |
Voting can not be denied regardless of race. All men could vote |
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Scalawags |
White southerners supporting the Federal government |
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Carpet Baggers |
A northerner who went south for political or financial advantage |
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Reconstruction |
rebuilding of the south and US society after the civil war |
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Black codes |
laws passed by southern states that had the intent to restrict black freedom. |
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Freedman's Bureau |
Us Federal Agency that helped the freed slaves |
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Sharecropper |
A tenant farmer who gives part of their crops to the landowner for rent |
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Crop-lien system |
a form of credit repaid in crops rather than money |
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radical republican |
Extreme republicans in congress who wanted to punish the south |
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redeemers |
a person who tried to bring back the old south without slaves |
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The "last cause" |
The belief that southerners were right in fighting the civil war |
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red shirts |
White supremacy group |
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Hamburg massacre |
Aiken county 6 blacks killed by a white mob |
