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36 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction
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to make or rebuild. reconstruction lasted 12 years after civil war when federal government rebuilt the south
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Stewards Folly
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bought Alaska
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Presedential Reconstruction
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When Andrew Johnson controlled. lasted for 2 years
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Freedmans Bureau
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helped set up schools, and distribute for 5 years
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Jim Crow
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Fake character who believed in seperating races
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KKK
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a club of white people who were against other races-all over the world-still exist
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Thirteenth Amedment
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ended slavery
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Fourteenth Amendment
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no state can take away peoples rights
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Amendment
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addition to the constitution
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Ratify
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to approve
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Nullify
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To make into nothing
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Veto
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Reject
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Carpetbagger
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from the North but went to the south after war ended
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Congressional Reconstruction
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the 10 year period when Northerners went south
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Scalawag
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a southerner who coorperated with the north
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abolisionist
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one who wants to stop slavery
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impeach
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a way for federal figures to be brought into trial
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Fifteenth Amendment
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allowed black people to vote
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Racical Republicans
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a group of leaders in congress, small group within republican party
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Segregation
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policy of seperation by races
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lynching
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to kill without trial (especially by hanging)
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white supremacy
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to be supreme-white men shouldnt vote again
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conservative democrats
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against reconstruction
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redeemers
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saviors
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poll tax
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tax to pay for being a person
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compromise of 1877
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removal of troops from the south
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Andrew Johnson
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17th president- vetoed reconstruction act
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Edmond G Ross
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radical republican~deciding vote in impeachment trial
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Thaddeus Stevens
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volunteered to be Jeffry Davis's Lawyer
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Robert E Elliot
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worked to get civil right law passed-was in house of Representatives
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Benjamen T Montgomery
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Slave machinist, inventor, buesness man-bought 2 plantations from his former owner
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Booker T Washington
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Rebuilt Tusgee School
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Ulysses S Grant
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Usless. general of Union
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Rutherford B Haynes
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19th president
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W.E.B Debois
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thought there should be no compromises between equality between black and white
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Ida B Wells
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famous journalist, wrote for describing segregation
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