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15 Cards in this Set
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Reconsturiction |
1865–1877) 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 |
Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction; once 10 percent of voters in a former Confederate state took a U.S. loyalty oath, they could form a new state government and be readmitted to the Union |
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13th (Thirteenth) Amendment |
1865) a constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery |
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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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 (Fourteenth) Amendment |
(1866) 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 Rights Act of 1866 |
alawthatgaveAfrican Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans |
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. 15th (Fifteenth) Amendment |
(1870) 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 Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops from the South |
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Poll Tax |
a special tax that 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 Laws |
a law that enforced segregation in the southern states |
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Plessy v. Ferguson |
(1896)U.S.SupremeCourtcasethat 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 |
