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Brandon Thomas
flash cards for reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | Rebuilding of the South |
| 13th Amendment | Ban slavery throughout the nation |
| Black Codes | Limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War |
| Radical Republicans | Member of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to break the power of wealthy planters in the South, and ensure that freedom received the right to vote. |
| 14th Amendment | Gives citizenship to all persons born in the United States and quarantees equal protection of laws. |
| K-K-K (Ku Klux Klan) | Secret Society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that separated people of different races in public places in the south. |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson |