U.s History Post-Civil War Era Vocab

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Reconstruction

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Furthermore, one of the main goals of reconstruction was to re-admit the South on terms that were acceptable to the North - full political and civil equality for blacks and a denial of the political rights of whites who were the leaders of the secession movement.

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13th Amendment

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Bans slavery in U.S states and territories except as a punishment for a crime.

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14th Amendment

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Defines citizenship and grants equal protection under the law for all citizens.

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15th Amendment

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Gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

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Sharecropping

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A system of agriculture in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop.

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Andrew Johnson

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17th President. Democratic Party.

1) Proposed his plan after Lincoln was assassinated and his ascended to the presidency

2) Amnesty to Whites who signed loyalty oaths

3) States must abolish slavery

4) States must pay War debts

5) No role for freed blacks

6) No vote for African Americans

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Radical Republicans

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1) Promoted equal rights for freed African Americans

2) Military occupation of the South to oversee changes

3) Voting rights for African Americans males

4) 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

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Jim Crow

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Was the name of the racial caste system that operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life.

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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1892. The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. Homer Plessy who was 1/8 black took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested.

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Scalawag

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A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.

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Freedmen's Bureau

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To aid former black slaves and poor whites in South after the Civil War. Fed millions of people, built hospitals and schools, provided medical aid, helped former slaves legalize marriages and locate families, assisted African American veterans.

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Carpetbagger

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A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

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Homestead Act

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- 1862 Made to encourage farmers to settle out west.

- Any citizen could purchase 160 acres for a $10 registration fee.

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Dawes Act

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The U.S law passed in 1887 that changed Native American owned land to be organized by individuals instead of by tribe, causing Native Americans to lose much land and forcing Native Americans their cultural tradition of sharing land.