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History
Flash Cards From Reconstruction
Question | Answer |
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reconstruction | to rebuild |
13th amendment | it band slavery throughout limited the rights of freedom |
black codes | laws that severly limited the rights of freedom |
radical republicans | vowed to take control of reconstruction |
14th amendment | blacks were considered citizens |
impeach | to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against public official |
15th amendment | gave black men the right to vote |
kkk | secret society organized in the south after the civl war to reassent white supremacy by means of violence |
jim crow laws | laws that seperated people of different races in public places in the south |
plessy v ferguson | an 1896 court case in which the supremacy court ruled that segregation in public facilities was legal as long as facilities were equal |