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17 Cards in this Set
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Black Codes
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Southern laws that severely limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil war.
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Carpetbagger
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Uncomplimentary nickname for a northerner who went to the south after the Civil War.
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Conservatives
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During reconstruction, white southerners who resisted change.
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Fifteenth Amendment
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An 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote.
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Fourteenth Amendment
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An 1869 amendment to the United States Constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws.
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Freedmen
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men and women who had been slaves before the Civil War.
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Grandfather Clause
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a law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1
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Ku Klux Klan
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a secret society organized in the south after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence.
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Literacy Test
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examination to see if a person can read and write
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Jim Crow Laws
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laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south.
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"New South"
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Term to describe the south in the late 1800's when efforts were made to expand the economy by building up industry.
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Plessy V. Furguson
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An 1896 court case in which the supreme court ruled that segregation in public facilities were legal as long as the facilities were equal.
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Poll Tax
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Tax required before a person can vote.
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Scalawag
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White southerner who supported the Republicans during reconstruction.
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Segregation
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Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other diffrences.
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Sharecropper
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Person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms in it in exchange for a share of the crop.
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Thirteenth Amendment
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An 1865 amendment to the United States Constitution that bans slavery throughout the nation
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