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American history 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| rebuilding of the south after the civil war 1865-1877 | reconstruction |
| Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after the civil war | radical republicans |
| 1864 required 50% of the voters of a state to take the loyalty oath and permitted only non-confederates to vote for a new state constitution, Lincoln refused to sign the bill, pocket vetoing it after Congress adjourned | Wade-Davis Bill |
| provided food, clothing, jobs, medical care, schools for former slaves and the poor whites | Freedman's Bureau |
| 7th President | President Andrew Jackson |
| Laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers | Black Codes |
| law that established federal guarantees of civil rights for all citizens | Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
| Guarantees equal protection under the law for all citizens | 14th Amendment |
| to charge a public official with wrongdoing in office | impeach |
| forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude | 15th amendment |
| white men who had been locked out of pre-civil war politics by their wealthier neighbors | scalawag |
| a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War | Carpetbagger |
| separation of the races | Segregation |
| combination of the races | integration |
| system in which the landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops | sharecropping |
| much like sharecropping, except that the farmer chooses what crop to plant and buys the supplies | share-tenancy |
| society created by with Southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights | Ku Klux Klan |
| made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen's right to vote | enforcement acts |
| system of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter | tenant farming |
| politicians who aim to repair the South in the eyes of Congress | redeemer |
| 19th president- his election in 1876 was disputed and his victory was secured by congressional commission and the Compromise of 1877 . Oversaw the withdrawal of the remaining federal troops from the South signaling the end of Reconstruction | Rutherford B Hayes |
| Compromise of 1877 | an agreement by which Rutherford B Hayes won the 1876 election in exchange to remove all federal troops from the South |
| state laws passed throughout the South to enforce segregation of public facilities | Jim Crow Laws |
| a tax charged on voters | poll tax |
| a reading and writing test formerly used in some Southern states to prevent African Americans from voting | literacy test |
| a law to disqualify African American voters to allow the vote only to men whose fathers and grandfathers voted before 1866 or 1867 | grandfather clause |
| African American activist dedicated to prompting educational and economic advancement for blacks as a road to racial equality | Booker T Washington |
| African American civil rights activist who advocated steps to create immediate legal, social, and political equality for blacks; spoke out against Booker T Washington | WEB DuBois |
| African American journalist who worked throughout her life to end the practice of lynching in the South | Ida B Wells |
| A law that banned that discrimination in public facilities and transportation | Civil Rights Act of 1875 |
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