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18 Cards in this Set
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Freedman's Bureau
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protect the rights of former slaves and asssisst with their education jobs and landowning
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sharecropping
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growing crops and selling it for trade
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crop-lien system
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merchants extended credit to tenants based on future crops,but have high interest rates and the uncertainties of farming led to debt.
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black codes
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restrict the rights of former slaves
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civil rights bill of 1866
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guaranteed rights of citizenships to former slaves
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14th amendments
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equal rights
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reconstruction act
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established temporary military governments in ten confedrrate states. ratifying the 14th amendment and permit freedman to vote
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"waving the bloody shirt"
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Republicans identified their opponents with secession and treason
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15th amendment
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rights to vote
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woman sufferage
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equal rights extended to women and African Americans
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carpetbaggers and scalawags
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called the northerners and southerners this after the war.
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KKK
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terrorist group who kill African Americans
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Enforement act
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Outlawing terrorist societies and use the army against them.
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colfax massacre
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armed whites assaulted the town with a small cannon. hundreds of slaves were murdered, including 50 from the black militia.
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Mississippi, 1871
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civil rights act of 1875
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protecting peoples rights
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slaughterhouse cases
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butchers excluded from a state sponsored monopoly in Louisiana went to court, their rights were violated.
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Redeemers
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conservative white democrats who reclaimed control of the south following the end of the reconstruction.
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Bargain of 1877
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pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.
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