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11 Cards in this Set
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Thirteenth Amendment
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a constitutional change ratified in 1865 abolishing slavery in the United States
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Freedman's Bureau
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a federal agency established in 1865, at the end of the Civil War, to help and protect the 4 million newly freed black americans as they transitioned out of enslavement.
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black codes
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laws entacted in 1855 and 1856 in the former Confederate States to restrict freedom and opportunities for African Americans
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civil rights
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a right that is guaranteed to all citizens of a country
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Radical Republicans
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during and after the civil war, a member of the Republican party who believed in and fought for emancipation of slaves and, later, the equal rights of American Blacks.
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Fourteenth Amendment
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a constitutional change ratified in 1868 granting Citizen Ship to all former slaves by declaring that anyone born in the United States is a citizen; it also extended to blacks the rights of due process of law and equal protection under the law.
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fifteenth Amendment
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a constitutional change ratified in in 1870 granting black males the right to vote.
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Segregation
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the force seperation of races in public places.
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tenant farming
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a system of agriculture in which land owners rent plots of land to workers, who pay for the use of the land in cash, with a share of the crop raised, or both.
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sharecropping
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a form of tenant farming in which a land owner provides a tenant not only with land but also with the money needed to purchase equipment and supplies and possibly also food, clothing and supervision.
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debt ponnage
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a system of servitude in which debtors are forced to work for the person to whom they owe money until they pay off the debt.
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