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