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34 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction
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rebuilding the former Confederate states and reuniting the nation
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amnesty
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would give a full pardon to all southerners
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John Wilkes Booth
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shot the president at a play
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Andrew Johnson
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assumed the presidency
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Thirteenth Amendment
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Congress passed in Jan 1865 to abolish slavery
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Black Codes
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resemble pre-Civil war slaves codes
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Thaddeus Stevens
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insisted that AFrican Americans be given the right to vote
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Frederick Douglass
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supported Thaddeus Stevens
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Freedmen's Bureau
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aided the millions of southerners left homeless
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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first civil rights law in our history
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Fourteenth Amendment
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required states to extend equal citizenship to African Americans
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Reconstruction Acts
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divided the former Confederacy into five military districts
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Ulysses S Grant
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nominated for president
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Fifteenth Amendment
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Right of citizens of teh United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united States
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carpetbaggers
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northern Republicans
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scalawags
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scoundrels
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Ku Klux Klan
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founded in 1866 by six former Confederates
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Enforcement Acts
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three laws empowered the federal government to combat terrorism with military force
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Panic of 1873
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economic depression
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
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bill prohibited businesses that served the public from discriminating against African Americans
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Samuel J Tilden
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was pitted against Rutherford B Hayes
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Rutherford B Hayes
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pitted against Samuel J Tilden
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Compromise of 1877
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Democrats' would accept Hayes as president, if the Republicans agree to withdraw the remaining federal troops from the South
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sharecropping
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a farmer worked a parcel of land in return for a share of the crop
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crop-lien system
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promise their crops to local merchants who sold them goods on credit
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poll taxes
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fixed taxes imposed on every voter
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literacy tests
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tests that barred those who could not read from voting
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segregation
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seperation
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Jim Crow laws
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required separate railway cars for African Americans and whites
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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lawsuit brought in 1896 Plessy was denied a seat in a first-class railway car
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Madame C J Walker
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leading AFrican American entrepreneur
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Booker T Washington
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believed that African Americans should concentrate on achieving economic independence
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Ida B Wells
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focused her attention on stopping the lynching of African Americans
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Redeemers
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supporters of white-controlled governments
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