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13 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction
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The reorganization and rebuilding after the cilvil war
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13th Amendment
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Outlaws slavery
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14th Amendment
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Protects the rights of freed slaves
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15th Amendment
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Prohibits the government from denying a person the right to vote because of race.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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President Lincoln freed all slaves in confederate states
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Ratified
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To give official approval
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Abolished
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Getting rid of slavery
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Sharecropping
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System of farming where a farmer works land for an owner. The owner provides equipment and seeds and shares the crop
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Freedman's Bureau
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They helped African Americans adjust or adapt to freedom
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Black Codes
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Laws to control freed men and women
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Ku Klux Klan
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Secret societies used fear and violence to deny rights to freedmen and women
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Carpetbagger
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Northerner who moved to the south after the Civil War
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Radical Republican
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They cavorts a more radical or extreme approach to Lincoln plans
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