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25 Cards in this Set
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John Wilkes Booth
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actor, racist, Southern Supporter, killed Lincoln
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Ford's Theatre
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place where Lincoln was killed
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Black Codes
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No voting, guns, jury for freedom for African Americans. It kept frredmen from gaining political or economic power
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Freedmen's Bureau
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A government agency to help freed slaves
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Ku Klux Klan
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Most dangerous secret society that worked to keep African Americans and white Republicans out of office
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Carpetbaggers
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Northerners who relocated to the South to get farms and make profits of Southern miseries
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Scalawags
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White Southern Republicans (small scruffy horses)
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Hiram Revels
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First African American to serve in the US senate
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Amnesty Act
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removed voting restrictions from white Southerners
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Freedmen
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Former slaves who were freed
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Conservatives
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People who wanted to keep the South the same during Reconstruction
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Reconstruction
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rebuilding
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Poll Tax
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A tax people had to pay every time they voted
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Literacy Test
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Determined how well you could read. People had to pass this test to vote
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Grandfather Clause
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white voters can vote if they had ancestors who voted before 1867
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Jim Crow Laws
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State and local laws that separated whites and blacks. This made them separate but equal in places like restaurants, hospitals and theaters.
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Separation is legal is facilities are equal
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13th amendment
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Abolished slavery
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14th amendment
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Guaranteed citizens equal protection of the laws
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15th amendment
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Forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
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16th amendment
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Congress can pass an income tax
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17th amendment
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Direct election of senators
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18th amendment
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in 1917 it is illegal to sell alcohol in the US
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19th amendment
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guarantees women the right to vote
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Amendment
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a change
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