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35 Cards in this Set
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Segregation
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separation of people usually based on race or religion
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Discrimination
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unfair difference in the treatment of people
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Measures taken to resolve Virginia's problems during reconstruction
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Freedmen's Bureau & Sharecropping
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Freedmen's Bureau
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a government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others in Virginia
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Sharecropping
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a system common in Virginia after the Civil War in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop
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Reconstruction
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Period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring southern states back into the Union
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Virginia's Economy was in ruins because
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Money had no value; banks were closed; railroads, bridges, plantations and crops were destroyed
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Jim Crow Laws
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passed by southern states; unfair poll taxes and voting tests impacted African Americans and American Indians
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Economic in Virginia after Civil War
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technology, transportation (railroads) and industry encouraged growth; Tobacco Farming increased and coal discovered in Tazewell County
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Abraham Lincoln
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16th President of US; Signed Emancipation Proclamation
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Harriet Tubman
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Enslaved in Maryland-- helped nearly 300 enslaved people escape to freedom on Underground Railroad (secret routes to free lands)
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John Brown
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Wanted to end slavery-- led anti-slavery raid at Harpers Ferry, VA
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Free all enslaved people in areas still fighting the Union- expanded goals of the war to include freeing all enslaved people
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Siege
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Long lasting attack
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Nat Turner
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Born enslaved in Southhampton County VA-- led large uprising of enslaved people
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Robert E Lee
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Commanded Confederate forces in the Civil War
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Ulysses S Grant
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Commanded Union forces in the Civil War; 18th President of US
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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Confederate general in the Civil War; killed at Chancellorsville by his own soldiers
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Abolitionist
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People who worked to end slavery
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Secede
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Withdraw from Union or United States
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Civil War
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Citizens of the same country fight each other
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Blockade
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Warships used to stop other ships from entering or leaving port
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Ironclads
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Ships covered in iron plates Monitor (US) and Merrimack (Confederate)
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Assassinated
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Murdered
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Reconstruction
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Time of rebuilding
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13th Amendment
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Ended Slavery in the United States December 1865
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14th Amendment
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All people born in the United States are citizens of the nation and their state
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Prejudice
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unfair FEELing of dislike or hatred for a certain group of people
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Entrepreneur
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A person who starts and runs a business
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Textile
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Cloth
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15th Amendment
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prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude
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Booker T Washington
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Born into slavery-- helped start Tuskegee Institute that became a leading center of education for African Americans
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