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12 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction |
The period of the time after the civil war when we physically and metaphorically rebuilt the country |
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Poll tax |
A personal tax to be paid before voting |
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Black codes |
New laws used by southern states to control African Americans |
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Literacy test |
A test to see if a person can read or write before voting |
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Amnesty |
A group pardon (for a crime) |
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Freedmen's bureau |
Agency that helped freedmen (former slaves) find jobs, the offered to help others as well |
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Impeachment |
The bringing of formal charges against a public official |
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Sharecropper |
A laborer who work on the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a value of the crop (usually a very small value |
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Segregation |
Forced separation of people based on race |
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Carpetbagger |
A name given by southerners to northern whites who went to the south to start businesses or pursue political office |
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Grandfather clause |
Laws that excused a voter from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote |
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Scalawag |
Southern whites that opposed secession |