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Social Studies Unit2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Plessy v. Ferguson | "Separate" facilities for African Americans and whites were constitutional as long as they were equal |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Agency helped freed African Americans start new lives |
| Fredrick Douglass | Abolitionist leader who had once been enslaved. Fought for the adoption of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments. |
| White Supremacy | Idea that white people were superior to other races |
| Andrew Johnson | President to replace Lincoln |
| Civil Right Acts | President Andrew vetoed it |
| Freedmen Bureau's Bill | rights for African Americans |
| Reconstruction Act | The time period after the Civil War in which the South was rebuilt |
| Jim Crow Laws | African Americans and whites had different rights |
| 13th Amendment | made slavery illegal in the Us and its territories |
| 14th Amendment | granted citizenship to everyone born in the US except Native Americans |
| 15th Amendment | ensured all citizens the right to vote regardless of race,color, or previous condition of servitude or enslavement |
| Compromise of 1877 | Hayes had to remove the Union soldiers from the South and the white Southerners had to promise to uphold the rights of African Americans |
| Booker T. Washington | African American teacher and founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama |
| W.E.B Du Boise | An educator, author, and co-founded the NAACP |
| Process for readmitting Confederate States to the Union | Swear loyalty to the Union and each state had to ratify the Thirteenth amendment |
| Discrimination | unfair difference in the way people are treated |
| Tenant | someone who pays rent |
| Carpetbaggers | northerners who went to the south |
| Impeach | to charge an official with wrongdoing |
| Scalawags | Southerners who cooperated with Northerners and African Americans usually for personal gain |
| Pardon | forgive |
| Sharecropping | someone who pays crops as rent |