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Thirteenth Amendment

Constitutional amendment adopted in 1865 that irrevocably abolished slavery throughout the United States.

Carpetbaggers

Northerner Profilers; term used by Southerners to describe Northerners who came to the South after the Civil War, often perceived as opportunistic and exploiting the post-war situation for personal gain, particularly in politics and business.

Tejanos

Texas settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent.

Sharecropping

Type of farm tenancy that developed after the Civil War in which landless workers—often former slaves—farmed land in exchange for farm supplies and a share of the crop.

Land is given back to Confederates, Andrew Johnson doesn’t want equal rights

Harper’s Ferry

Site of abolitionist John Brown’s failed raid on the federal arsenal, October 16–17, 1859; Brown became a martyr to his cause after his capture and execution.

Wilmot Proviso

Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War; defeated by southern senators, led by John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, in 1846 and 1847.

Ku Klux Klan

Group organized in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866 to terrorize former slaves who voted and held political offices during Reconstruction; a revived organization in the 1910s and 1920s that stressed white, Anglo-Saxon, fundamentalist Protestant supremacy; revived a third time to fight the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the South.

First leader - Nathan Bedford Forrest

Bargain of 1877

Deal made by a Republican and Democratic special congressional commission to resolve the disputed presidential election of 1876; Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, who had lost the popular vote, was declared the winner in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from involvement in politics in the South, marking the end of Reconstruction.

end of reconstruction, deal in politics

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854 law sponsored by Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas to allow settlers in newly organized territories north of the Missouri border to decide the slavery issue for themselves; fury over the resulting repeal of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 led to violence in Kansas and to the formation of the Republican Party.

Crittenden Compromise

The compromise would have guaranteed the permanent existence of slavery in the slave states by reestablishing the free-slave demarcation line drawn by the 1820 Missouri Compromise. Was rejected by Lincoln

Filibustering

a parliamentary procedure in the United States Senate used to delay or block a vote on a bill or other measure

Bull Run

was the first full-scale battle of the Civil War. The fierce fight there forced both the North and South to face the sobering reality that the war would be long and bloody

fought on July 21, 1861, near Manassas, Virginia and resulted in a confederate victory

revealed chaos within union army

Topics of Reconstruction

Carpetbaggers, Sharecropping, Ku Klux Klan, Bargain of 1877

Twin Relics of Barbarism

phrase linked to the practices of Slavery and Polygamy