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Social Studies Unit2
Term | Definition |
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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 |