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17 Cards in this Set
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Conservatives
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Politicians who are resistant to change.
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Thirteenth Amendment
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A change to the constitution in 1865 which Abolishes Slavery throughout America.
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Amendment that guarantees equal protection under the law.
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Fifteenth Amendment
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People of all races cannot be denied of voting no matter what race, color or being a slave.
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Freeman
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All men and women who had been slaves
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Segragation
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Legal separation of people based on race and religion
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New South
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Term used to describe the South after the civil war comparing it to the Old South before the civil war
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Black Codes
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State and local laws passed to limit basic human rights and civil liberties of Blacks.
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Carpetbagger
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An uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the South after the Civil War
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Plessy vs Ferguson
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a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation even in public accommodations (particularly railroads), under the term "separate but equal"
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Poll Tax
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A tax in which voters had to pay to vote.
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Scalawag
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A white southerner who supported the republicans during reconstruction.
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Sharecropper
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sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land
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Literary Test
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An assessment for all voters to determine if he could read, write, and understand political issues. This was done to prevent freed slaves from voting.
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Ku Klux Klan
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Secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence
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Jim Crow Laws
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Laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South
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Grandfather Clause
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Law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867
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