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Freedmen

The men and women who had been enslaved.


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Reconstruction

The rebuilding of the South after the civil war.


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Amnesty

A government problem

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Freedmen’s bureau

A government agency founded during reconstruction to help former slaves.

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Thirteenth amendment

An 1865 amendment to the united states constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation.

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Black codes

The southern laws that severely limited the rights the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.

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Radical republicans

A member of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to take power from the wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freemen received the right to vote.


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Fourteenth amendment

An 1868 amendment of the united states constitution that guarantees equal protection of the laws.

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Reconstruction act

An 1867 law that threw out the southern states government that refused to ratify the fourteenth amendment.

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Impeach

 To bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official.


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Fifteenth amendment

An 1868 amendment to the U.S constitution that forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race.

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Scalawag

A white southerner who supported the republicans during the reconstruction.

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Carpetbagger

An uncomplimentary name for a northerner who went to the south after the civil war,

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Ku Klux Klan

A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy using violence.

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Sharecropper

A person who rents a plot of land from another person and a farms it in exchange for a share of the crop.

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Compromise of 1877

An agreement by republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes to end accepting his inauguration as President after the disputed election of 1876.

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Poll tax

A tax required before a person can vote.

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Literary test

An examination to see if a person can read and write used in the past to restrict voting rights.

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Grandfather clause

In the post- reconstruction South, a law that excused a vote from a literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to vote on Jan 1, 1867.


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Segregation

The legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.


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Jim Crow laws

Laws that separated people of different races in public places in the South.

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Plessy v. Ferguson

An 1896 court case in which Supreme court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as the facilities were equal.

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New South

A term used to describe the South in the late 1800s when efforts were being made to expand the economy by building up industry.

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