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recontruction
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Recontruction | The period of time when the united states made policies to rebuild the south. |
| Ku Klu Klan | A group that terrorized blacks and whites who supported their rights. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | This bill gave blacks citizenship the same legal rights as whites. |
| 14th Amendment | This right required states to grant citizenship to all persons born in the united states. |
| 15th Amendement | Protects blacks voting rights. |
| Scalawag | White southerners who suppoerted the changes. |
| Carpetbagger | Northerners who moved south. |
| Sharecropping | Sharing the employers crop with freedmen. |
| Tenant Farming | Sharecroppers who rented land. |
| Liberal Rebublicans | Those who broke with the party over the enforcement acts. |
| Sand Creek Massacre | The US Army had persuaded a group of Cheyenne to stop raiding farms and return to their Colorado reservation peacefully. |
| Battle of little bighorn | To stop raids pn settlers in Sioux territory. |
| sitting bull | one of the indians who led an attack. |
| George Armstrong Custer | led a headlong attack against the far larger force. |
| Dawes Act | Broke up some reservations and divided the land. |
| Homestead Act | Allowed anyone of rhe age 21 to own land in the west. |