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Vocabulary
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| black codes | laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 after the civil war |
| Lincolns 10 precent plan | that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters |
| Andrew jackson | the seventh president was born near the end of the colonial |
| 13th amendment | abolished slavery in the United States |
| 14th amendment | addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens |
| 15th amendment | prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on their race |
| civil rights act of 1866 | affirmed that all citizens were equally protected by the law |
| freedman's bureau | established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South |
| military reconstruction acts | divided the south into five different military district |
| impeachment | a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity |
| Ulysses S grant | the 18th President of the United States |
| sharecropping | a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land |
| KKK | a secret organization in the southern U.S active for several years after the Civil War which aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of blacks |
| compromise of 1877 | a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election |
| Rutherford b Hayes | the 19th President of the United States |
| jim crow laws | racial segregation state and local laws enacted after the Reconstruction |
| homestead act | passed by Congress in 1862 enabling persons who settled on undeveloped 160-acre tracts of land to gain title after meeting certain criteria |
| transcontinental railroad | train route across the United States, finished in 1869 |
| immigrant labor | a person who moves from place to place to get work |
| assimilation | process by which a person acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group |
| movement of buffalo | |
| little big horn | battle in which General George Custer and his forces were defeated by Sioux warriors on 25 June 1876 |
| continental congress | a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies |
| election of 1824 | John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825, after the election was decided by the House of Representatives |
| election of 1828 | the 11th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 31, to Tuesday, December 2, 1828 |
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