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vocab #11-20

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Ft. Sumter -1st battle of the civil war -the fort (in South Carolina) where the Confederacy demanded that the Union leave; this began the 4 year battle between the North and South (Civil War)
Ku Klux Klan aka KKK; a secret group of white men who wanted to punish the former slaves and make sure their rights were limited
Carpetbaggers the people from other areas of the country ( esp. the North) who moved south after the war. They came for various reasons: make money, as missionaries, politics...their name came from the type of suitcase they carried; they were Republicans
Freedman's Bureau an organization established by the Federal Government to help and protect the newly freed slaves
vigilante a person who takes the law into his own hands
Reconstruction the period of time after the Civil War in which the Federal Government planned to restore the South to the Union
Radical Republicans wanted radical (major) changes in the government
Scalawags these were people native to the South who joined the Republican party after the war; Southerners who supported Reconstruction; most were wealthy sugarcane planters
Confederacy a group of states bound together very loosely
14th amendment made all African Americans citizens
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