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American History (reconstruction Era)

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1865

Lincoln’s assassination/ 13th Amendment

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1868

14th Amendment

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1877

End of reconstruction

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1865-1869

Andrew Johnson

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1869-1877

Ulysses S. Grant

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1877-1881

Rutherford B. Hayes

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Reconstruction Era

the era of rebuilding in America after the Civil War

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Freedmen

Former slaves living in America (approx 3.5 mil.)

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10% Plan

10% of registered voters in a state needed to swear an oath of loyalty for the state to join America

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Radicals

republicans who DID NOT support Lincoln’s plan

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Wade-Davis Bill:

proposed to give Congress control of reconstruction

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pocket veto

presidential right to kill a bill by not acting up on it before Congress adjourned

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black codes

laws that Southern states created to limit freedmen’s rights

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freedmens Bureau

an organization that provided aid & supplies to the freedmen in the South

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civil rights bill

guaranteed citizenship to freedmen born in the US

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14th Amendment

guaranteed citizenship to any person (including freedmen) born in America

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15th Amendment

guaranteed the right to vote for any American citizen (including freedmen)

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Reconstruction Act

divided the South into 5 sections to be rebuilt by a military general

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tenure of office act

prevented the President from dismissing civil officers appointed by the Senate without consent from the Senate

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compromise of 1877

officially ended Reconstruction

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carpet baggers

Northern politicians who took Southern political positions after the war

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Scalawags

white southerners who cooperated with carpetbaggers

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Klu Klux Klan

secret society that used terror tactics to suppress the rights of freedmen

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Amnesty Act

restored political rights to most of those who had cooperated with the Confederacy

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poll taxes

taxes that citizens had to pay before votion

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solid South

indicated the many years that South voted steadily Democrat

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Booker T. Washington

freedman who became a spokesman for freedmen’s rights after the war; he also was the author of “Up from Slavery”

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Tuskegee Institute

the 1st university for freedmen in America

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George Washington Carver

best-known science professor at Tuskegee

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Freedman’s Aid Society

created by the Methodist Episcopal church to set up schools in Southern states for the education of slaves

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sharecropping

division of land into small plots worked by farmers & their families