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Reconstruction
Social Studies G8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | after the Civil War, South in financial ruin and divided into 5 military districts |
| Radical Republicans | took control after Lincoln's death; punished Confederate leaders and Southerners for Civil War |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery; African Americans were free to move wherever they wanted |
| 14th Amendment | granted citizenship to African Americans; all AMericans were to be treated equally under the law; reversed the Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling |
| 15th Amendment | gave voting rights to African American males; Southerners resisted by creating poll taxes |
| Hiram Rhodes Revels | 1st African American U.S. Senator |
| Black Codes | laws that limited the new freedom of formers slaves |
| Freedmen's Bureau | worked to help newly freed slaves by providing: 1) education, 2) clothing/food, 3)jobs |
| Sharecropping | farming system in which former slaves and poor whites were trapped in a cycle of debt |
| Transcontinental Railroad | encouraged settlement of the West; opened new markers to sell goods; price of goods decreased; built by Irish and Chinese immigrants |