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12 Cards in this Set
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Discrimination |
unfair treatment of a person/group because of prejudice |
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political empowerment |
Ability to bring about change |
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black codes |
Laws designed to restrict the rights of freedmen |
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Ku Klux Klan |
Secret organization that tried to keep freedmen from their new civil rights. |
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15th Amendment |
Granted all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race or color |
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Tenant Farming |
Similar to sharecropping but Tenants own some equipment, animals, and buy their seeds and then pay the landowner a set amount of cash. |
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Freedmen's Bureau |
Help farmers, slaves, and poor whites |
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Credit |
The ability to buy something now and pay for it later or over a period of time. |
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Reconstruction |
Plan to rebuild the South and restore the southern states to the Union. |
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Sharecropping |
Landowners provided land, a house, farming tools, animals, seed, and fertilizer and workers agree to give the owner a share of their crops. |
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14th Amendment |
Granted citizenship to the Freedmen and forbade any states from denying anyone equal protection of the law. |
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13th Amendment
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Officially abolished slavery. |
