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17 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction
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Federal governments plan to rebuild and reestablish the states of the former Confederacy.
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Amnesty
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official pardon (forgiveness)
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13th Amendment
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Abolished slavery in the United States
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Black Codes
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Laws made in southern states to work around the 13th amendment and stop the movement of freedmen and return them to plantation labor.
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Freedmen's Bureau
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Institution that opposes restrictions against blacks. It was Federal agency that handed out food, clothing and fuel to the poor.
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Disenfranchisement
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Exclusion from voting privileges.
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Declared that all native born or naturalized persons were citizens and had the same rights as citizens.
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Scalawags
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Person who is a scoundrel
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Carpetbaggers
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White northerners who settled in the south after the war.
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15th Amendment
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Declared that the the right to vote should not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Coalition
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Combining of interests
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Mississippi Plan
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Plan developed by Mississippi Democrats to force all whites into the Democratic party and intimidate black voters to regain the government.
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Compromise of 1877
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Gave Hayes the presidency in return for the ending of the Reconstruction government in the South
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Share Tenantry
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Farmer worked a plot of land in exchange for part of the crop.
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Jim Crow Laws
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Segregated schools, railway cars, and all public facilities.
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Solid South
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Term recognizing the Democratic control of southern politics
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Supreme court ruling that segregation was lawful as long as blacks and whites had access to equal facilities.
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