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10 Cards in this Set
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carpetbaggers
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Northern Republicans who moved to the South suring Reconstruction
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scalawags
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name that former Confederates gave to southern Republicans during Reconstruction
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Ku Klux Klan
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secret society created by former Confederates that used terror and violence to keep African American from obtaining Civil Rights
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Enforcement Acts
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3 acts passed by Congress allowing the gov. to use military force to stop violence against Southern African American
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Panic of 1873
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US economic depression that weakened the Republicans focus on Reconstruction
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Civil Rights Act of 1873
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law that prohibited businesses that served the public from discriminating against African American
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Redeemers
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Democratic supporters of white controlled governments in the South in the 1870's
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Samuel J Tilden
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Democrat who ran against Hayes and lost
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Rutherford B Hayes
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Republican who ran against Tilden and won
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Compromise of 1877
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settled the election of 1876 Democrat agreed to accept Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops
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