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26 Cards in this Set
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freedmen
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former slave
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reconstruction
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rebuilding of the south after the civil war
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ten % plan
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lonclons plan for reconstruction the south
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amnesty
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government pardon
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wade-davis bill
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reconstruction plan the required all white men to swear loyalty to the union
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freedmen's Bureau
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U.S. government agency founded during reconstruction to help former slaves
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13th amendement
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amendment that baned slavery through out the nation
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black codes
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limited the rights of blacks to voted
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randical republican
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republican during the reconstruction
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14th amendment
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amendment giving all people citizenship if born it the U.S.
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radical reconstruction
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period beginning in 1867 when the republicans took charge of reconstruction
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reconstruction act
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an 1867 law that threw out southern state governments that had refused to ratify the 14th amendment.
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impeach
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to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official.
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15th amenment
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forbids any state to deny blacks the right to vote
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scalawag
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southern republican
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carpetbagger
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uncomplimentary nickname for a norhterner who went to the south after the civil war
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conservatives
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white southerners who resisted to change
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KKK
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secret society organized in the south after the civil war to reassert white supremacy by means of violence (killed blacks)
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Sharecropper
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someone who rents land from another person
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poll tax
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fee to vote
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literacy test
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test to vote
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grandfather clause
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u did have to take the literacy test if your grandfather voted before Jan. 1, 1867
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segregation
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legal separation of races
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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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Plessy v ferguson
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supream court ruled that segregation is legal
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new south
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tream used to describe the south after the reconstruction
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