Vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| amnesty | a group pardon
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| freedmen | enslaved people who were freed by the war
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| black codes | new laws the south used to control African Americans
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| John Wilkes Booth | From Maryland,shot Lincoln
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| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's VP, became President after assassanation
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| thirteenth amendment | banned both slavery and forced labor
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| fourteenth amendment | all people born pr naturalized in the US is a citizen
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| civil rights act | granted citizenship of African Americans and guarenteed civil rights to all people but Natives
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| re construction act | removed governments of southern states that didnt rarify the fourteentch amendment
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| hiram revels and blanche bruce | African Americans who served in Senate
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| scalawags | southern whites who opposed secession
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| carpetbaggers | a name given by southerners to northern whites who went south to start businesses or pursure political office
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| impeachment | bringing of formal charges agaist a public office
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| Ulysses S. Grant | war hearo, won presidential election for republicans
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| fifteenth amendment | barred all states from denying African American males the right to vote
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| Ku Klux Klan | secret society, voter intimidation towards African Americans, wore white hoods and terrorized blacks and white republicans
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| Ku Klux Klan Act | barred use of force against voters
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| Rutherford B. Hayes | Republican candidate for presidential election in 1876, ended reconstruction in south
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| Samuel J. Tilden | Democratic candidate for presidential election in 1876
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| sharecropper | a laborer who works the land for a farmer in exchange for a share of the value of the crop
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| poll tax | personal tax to be paid before voting
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| literacy test | a test to see if a person can read or write
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| grandfather clause | allowed a voter to avoid a literacy test if his father/grandfather was eligible to vote Jan. 1, 1867
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| segregation | enforced seperation of races
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| Jim Crow laws | laws made by southerners to prevent African American equality
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| Homer Plessy | arrested for sitting in a coach marked for whites only
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| sperate but equal | sperate facilities as long as they were equal
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