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35 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction
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a period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War
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Freedmen
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freed slaves (former slaves)
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13th Ammendment
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ended slavery
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14th Ammendment
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Civil Rights
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15th Ammendment
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being able to vote should not be based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (right to vote)
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Andrew Johnson
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17th president
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Ten Percent Plan
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Lincoln's plan to reconstruct the Union by re-admitting Southern states
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Wade-Davis Bill
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Reconstruction plan passed by Republicans but Lincoln vetoed it
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Freedmen's Bureau
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Government agency that helped freed slaves
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Alexander Stephens
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Vice president of Confederacy
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Black Codes
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Set of laws that limited the rights of freedmen. Passesd by Southern legislatures after the war
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Impeach
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Bring charges against an official such as a president
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Radical Republicans
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group of Republicans in Congress who wanted to protect the rights of freedmen in the South and keep rich Southern plantations out of power
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Moderate Republicans
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Part of the Republican that didn't take things to the extreme
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Union general/became 18th president
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Scalawag
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White southerner who supported Radical Republicans
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Carpetbagger
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name for a northerner who went to the South during Reconstruction
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Sharecropper
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farmer who warks land owned by another and gives the land-owner a share of the crop at harvest time
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Conservatives
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Southern democrats who wanted to go back to the way of life before the Civil War
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Ku Klux Klan
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secret group first set up in the South after the war. Members terrorized blacks and other groups they hated.
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Racism
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belief that one race is superior to another
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Lynch
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to murder or kill by mob
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Poll tax
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fee paid by a voter in order to vote
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Literacy Test
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a reading test formerly used in some Southern states to prevent African Americans from voting
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Segregation
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the separation of people on the basis of race
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Grandfather Clause
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kept African Americans from the polls; exused from poll tax or literacy test if father or grandfather voted before 1866
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Samuel Tilden
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was democratic candadite
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Rutheford B. Hayes
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was republican candidate and won
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Election of 1876
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ended reconstruction and Hayes (republican candidate) won
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Popular Vote
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the people's most known vote
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Electoral Vote
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each state gets a certain amount of votes based on representatives in Congress
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Jim Crow Laws
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laws to separate whites and blacks in public and private facilities
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal of races in public accomodations was legal in 1896
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Pocket Veto
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Presidtn doesn't veto, holds onto the bill until Congress lets out
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Corruption
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wrong-doing
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