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Reconstruction
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1865-1877; Period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War, when the Southern Confederate states were readmitted to the US
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Reconstruction Plan-Lincoln
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Dec. 1863: Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction (aka 10% plan)- Confederates pardoned if took oath (except high-rank officials & ppl accused of crimes against POWs), once 10% of 1860 voters did, state could form goverment & send reps and senators to congress
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Reconstruction Plan-Andrew Johnson
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May 1865; Same as Lincoln's plus wealthy southern land-owners were excluded from taking oath; Johnson pardoned 13000 Confederates so south managed by white men
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Reconstruction Plan-Radical Republicans
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-Destry political power of slaveholders
-African-americans given full citizenship & right to vote (Ended up going w/ this plan) |
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Freedmen
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Freed African-american slaves
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Freedmen's Bureau
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1865; Established by Congress to provide food, clothing, hospitals, legal protection, & education to former slaves & poor whites in the South
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Sharecropping
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A landowner divides his land & assigns each family few acres, seeds, & tools to work with; Croppers kept some crops & most went to landowner
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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1896; Supreme Court case that made racial segregation legal under "seperate but equal" terms
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Jim Crow Ettiquette
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Blacks were expected to follow certain "rules" like addressing whites as higher authorities, stepping off the sidewalk when speaking to whites, and not eat in restaurants/ attend events the same day as whites
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Homer Plessy
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1892; Sat in a "White Only" train car & refused to move; Was arrested for breaking Louisiana's segregation law; Challenged that he had been denied equal protection under the law (14th)
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Black's Challenges for Voting
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Literacy test, poll tax, no car/long walk, threats from whites
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Grandfather Clause
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Any person who's father/grandfather was eligible to vote before Jan 1, 1867 is eligible w/o passing requirements (Not valid for any blacks bcuz couldn't vote before then)
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13th Amendment
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1865; Abolished slavery
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14th Amendment
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1868 aka Civil Rights' Amendment; All ppl born/naturalized in US (including slaves) are citizens of US equally protected under law
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15th Amendment
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1870; Cannot deny voting rights bcuz of race, color, or if they were a slave
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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
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Against Whites, Anglo-Saxan, Protestants
Goals: Destroy Republican Party, throw out Reconstruction governments, prevent Blacks from voting Methods: White cloaks like ghosts, burning crosses, lynching, violence |
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Jim Crow Era
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1950s & 60s; Time when there were racists laws & actions that deprived African-American's of their civil rights by declaring them inferior
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Election of 1876
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Tilden (Democrat) won popular vote, but 1 short of electoral vs. Hayes (Republican); Agreed to accept Hayes if withdrew federal troops from South
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Disenfranchisement
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To take away priveleges or right of citizenship, such as voting
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Mamie
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Ugly, heavy-set, pitch black woman, who is happily obedient to her master, loyal, protective
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Sambo
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Simple, laughing, carefree black man who doesn't like to do work, irresponsible, dancing, eating, singing
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Uncle
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Old balding black man, passive, accepts inferiority
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Pickaninny
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Black children portrayed as being victimized, animal like/savage
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Zip Coon
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Buffoon, free blacks in north who imitate whites & make fools of themselves
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Coon
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Large lips, gamblers, dancing, large eyes, urban areas, like sambo, then violent the next minute
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T.D. Rice
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White comedian who created the Jim Crow image by imitating a dancing cripple man while in black face
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