Reconstruction Terms
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| Reconstruction Amendments 13, 14, 15 | It implementing the Reconstruction of the South after the war
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| Radical Republicans | Powerful republicans that manipulated the other factions to their advantage
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| Lincoln's 10% Plan | A model for reinstatement of Southern states
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| Johnson's Reconstruction Plan | It disenfranchised all former military and civil officers of the Confederacy and all those who owned property worth 1000 or more made their estates liable to confiscation
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| Wade Davis Bill | It made re-admittance to the Union for former Confederate states contingent on a majority in each Southern state to take the Ironclad oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy
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| Scalawags | Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republicans after the Civil War
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| Carpet-Baggers | A political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections
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| Sharecropping | A farmer who gives a part of his crop as rent
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| Tenant Farming | Farming rented land
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| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Was necessary for the former Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union
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| Johnson's Impeachment | It consumed the long political battle between Johnson and the Radical Republican movement which dominated Congress and wanted control of Reconstruction policies
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| KKK | A clan made by Confederate veterans of the Civil War that thought they felt like outsiders in the United States.
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| Compromise of 1877 | It settle the intensely disputed the 1876 election and ended Reconstruction in the South.
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| Booker T. Washington | An African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to Republican presidents
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| W.E.B Dubois | An American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor
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| Ethnocentrism | Evaluating other people and cultures according to the standards of one's own culture
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| Black Codes | A body of laws, statues, and rules enacted by southern states immediately after the Civil War to regain control over the freed slaves, maintain while supremacy, and ensure the continued supply of cheap labor
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| Jim Crow Laws | Were state and local laws in te US enacted between 1876 and 1965
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| Poll Taxes | A tax levied on every adult, without reference to their income or resources
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| Literacy Tests | The government practice of testing the literacy of potential citizens at the federal level, and potential voters at the state level.
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| Grandfather Clause | A clause in the constitutions of some Southern states after 1890 intended to permit whites to vote while disfranchising blacks: it exempted from new literacy and property qualifications for voting those men entitled to vote before 1867 and their lineal de
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