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21 Terms
Black Codes
Laws enacted in southern states after the civil war that criminalized African Americans leisure, limited mobility, and locked many into forming labor contracts
13th Amendment
Amendment that legally abolished slavery (Except as punishment)
14th Amendment
Ensured that state laws could not deny due process or discriminate
15th Amendment
Allowed all men to vote no matter skin color
Hiram Revels, Blanche K. Bruce and other African American Lawmakers
African American men that became political representatives at the federal level
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Divided the south into different military districts
Ku Klux Klan
A white supremacist organization founded in 1865 that used violence against African Americans
Enforcement Acts
Laws passed in 1870 and 1871 to protect African Americans voting rights
Redeemers
White southern Democrats who wanted to take back control of southern governments
Depression of 1873
A major economic crisis that caused businesses to close and people to lose their jobs
1874 House Election
Election where Democrats won control of the US House of Representatives
Mississippi Plan
A plan to use violence and threats to stop African Americans from voting
1876 Presidential Election
A very close election between Hayes and Tilden and the results were argued about
Compromise of 1877
A deal made by Hayes to remove federal troops from the south
Social Darwinism
Identified a natural order that extended from the laws of the cosmos to the workings of industrial society
Knights of Labor
United skilled and unskilled workers in the 1880’s
8 Hour Day
The campaign/strike for works days to be limited to 8 hours a day
Haymarket Riot
Labor leaders and radicals called for a protest at Haymarket square
American Federation of Labor
Group of workers’ unions that fought for better pay and better working conditions
Pullman Strike
A worker strike in 1894 because railroad workers were upset about low pay
Eugene V. Debs
A labor worker who fought for better rights and pay for workers