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Reconstruction
Era during US History after the civil war when the nation was rebuilt (1865 - 1877)
Radical Republican
Republicans who were a faction during the civil war and through reconstruction, fought for equality among races & harsher punishment for states that left the union
Republican
Political party in the United States - party of Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Vice President of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States following Lincoln's assassination
Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States (1861-1865)
Emancipation
Freedom from slavery
Civil Rights
Rights that guaranteed to you by virtue of citizenship
Jim Crow
Name given to era & laws that segregated black and white Americans
Manifest Destiny
Belief that it was the destiny of the United States to spread from sea to shining sea
Westward Expansion
Moving westward and settling more land on the NA continent - policy supported by the US government
Statehood
Act of becoming a state from prior territory status within the United States
The movement that fought for equality amongst women and men in the United States
Literacy Test
Test given to African Americans during reconstruction that qualified them to vote - a Jim Crow era program
Grandfather Clause
Clause that was written into many state constitutions that claimed one could vote only if their grandfather voted, this precluded many African Americans
13th Amendment
A constitutional amendment ratified in 1865 that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, except as punishment for a crime. It legally freed all enslaved people and prohibited slavery nationwide.
14th Amendment
A constitutional amendment ratified in 1868 that grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States and guarantees equal protection under the law. It was designed to protect the rights of formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
SCOTUS case that established that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine
Black Codes
Similar to Jim Crow laws, enforced segregation
KKK
Hate group that organized after the Civil War to protest the freedom of blacks
Lynching
Violent tactic used to kill publicly African Americans and terrorize black Americans during reconstruction
Separate but Equal
Legal precedent established by Plessy v. Ferguson that stated that separate but equal facilities were allowed for blacks and whites in public
Dawes Act
Passed by congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indian
Homestead Act
Act that encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
Pacific Railway Act
Series of acts that promoted the construction of the transcontinental railway
Abolition
To ban slavery
Woman’s suffrage movement
Women’s movement to fight for the right to vote
Seneca Falls
Site of a women’s rights convention in early 1800’s
Americanization
To adopt the American identity, shedding your former identity, or to adopt a more American point of view
Assimilation
To become one with a new culture, abandoning your own
Stereotypes
Exaggerated characteristics a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
Nativism
A policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act
Act of US Congress that prohibited Chinese immigrants
Tenements
Housing for immigrants in the late 1800’s early 1900’s
Emancipation Proclamation
Document that freed the slaves
Transcontinental Railroad
Railroad that crossed the United States
Susan B. Anthony
Woman who fought for the rights of Women & suffrage
15th amendment
Amendment that prohibits the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was ratified in 1870.
