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22 Cards in this Set
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Freemen
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men/women that had been slaves
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Thirteenth amendment
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an 1865 amendment to the US Constitution that bans slavery throughout the nation.
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Black codes
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Southern laws that severely limited the rights of the African Americans after the Civil War
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Fourteenth Amendment
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ab 1868 amendment to the US Constitution that guarantees equal election of laws
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Fifteenth Amendment
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an 1869 amendment to the US constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race.
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Scalawag
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white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction
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Carpetbagger
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uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the south during the Civil War
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Conservatives
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protection of natural resources
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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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Share cropper
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person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms in exchange for a shore of the crop
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Poll Tax
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tax required before a person can vote
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Literacy Test
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examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
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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 first 1867
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Segregation
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legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
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Jim Crow Laws
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laws that separated people of different races into public places in the South
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Poll Tax
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tax required before a person can vote
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Literacy Test
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examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
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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 first 1867
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Segregation
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legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
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Jim Crow Laws
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laws that separated people of different races into public places in the South
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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an 1896 court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal
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New South
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term to describe the south in the late 1800s when efforts were made to expand economy by building up industry
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