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11 Cards in this Set
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13th Amendment
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1865- abolition of slavery
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14th Amendment
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1868- National citizenship, equality before the law
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15th Amendment
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1870- Gave voting rights for every citizen regardless of race
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Radical Republicans
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Harsh treatment for the South, wanted to wait till the South proved that they were loyal, wanted freedman to have equal rights
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Freedman's Bureau
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Government act that helped slaves transition to become workers/laborers
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Scalawags
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Southern white who joined the Republican party
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Carpetbaggers
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Term given to northerners who moved South during Reconstruction
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KKK
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White southern rebellion group, used violence as a means to intimidate blacks.
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Slaughterhouse Case
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(1873) Citizenship rights were left up to the states
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US vs. Cruikshank
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(1876)- federal government could only enforce violations of civil rights laws by states, not individuals
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Compromise of 1877
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The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election. Through it, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops that were propping up Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. Consequently, the incumbent President,
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