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Reconstruction -
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Question | Answer |
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Reconstruction | The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War. |
Thirteenth Amendment | Abolished slavery. |
Freedmen | African Americans who had been set free from slavery. |
The Black Codes | Limited the rights of slaves, helped planters find workers, and kept freedmen at the bottom of society. |
Civil Rights | The rights that all people have according to the Constitution. |
Fourteenth Amendment | Declared that former slaves were citizens with full civil rights. |
Sharecropper | A farmer who rents the land (and often equipment and seeds) from a landowner. Most sharecroppers were in debt. |
Scalawags | Southerners called other southerners this term if they supported the Republican Party. |
Carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved to the South to gain power and wealth after the Civil War. |
Fifteenth Amendment | Said that all men had the right to vote. Its purpose was to protect the right of African American men to vote. |
Ku Klux Klan | This a group that terrorizes African Americans. |
Jim Crow Laws | Laws the enforced the separation of blacks and whites in the South after the Civil War. |