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15 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction |
The period following the civil war during which the U.S government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states |
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Ten Percent Plan |
Pre. Abe's plan for reconstruction, once 10% of voters Ina former confederate state took a U.S loyalty oath, they could form a new state government and be read titled to the union. |
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13th amendment |
A constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery. |
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Freedmen's bureau |
An agency established by congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the south. |
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Black codes |
Laws passed in the southern states during reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans. |
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14th amendment |
A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians. |
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Civil right act of 1886 |
A law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white americans. |
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Poll tax |
A special tax a person had to pay in order to vote. |
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Segregation |
The forced separation of people of different races in public places. |
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Jim Crow law |
A law that enforced segregation in the southern states. |
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Please v.s ferguson |
U.S Supreme Court case that established the "separate-but-equal" doctrine for public facilities. |
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Sharecropping |
A system used on southern farms after the civil war in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. |
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15th amendment |
A constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote. |
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KU KLUX KLAN (KKK) |
A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. |
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Compromise of 1877 |
An agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876; Democrats agreed to accept the republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops from the south. |
