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Reconstruction Lvl 1
US history Reconstruction
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Black Codes | Laws enacted in the former Confederate states to restrict freedom and opportunities for African Americans |
| Freedmen’s Bureau | Federal agency established to help and protect the newly freed black Americans as they transitioned out of enslavement |
| Civil rights | A right that is guaranteed to all citizens of a country |
| Radical Republican | Believed and fought for the emancipation of slaves and, later, the equal rights of American blacks |
| segregation | The forced separation of races in public places |
| sharecropping | A form of tenant farming in which the land owner provides a tenant not only with land but also with the money needed to purchase equipment and supplies and possibly also food, clothing, and supervision |
| Literacy test | A test of one’s ability to read and write |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret, white supremacist terrorist group that resisted Reconstruction by tormenting black Americans |
| lynched | To kill someone without approval by law, often by hanging and by a mob of people |
| Poll tax | A tax of a set rate that is imposed on each person in a population |
| Grandfather clause | Activity from any new restrictions on the activity that are established by the law |
| 13th Amendment | A constitutional change ratified to abolish slavery in the United States |
| 14th Amendment | A constitutional change ratified, granting citizenship to all former slaves by declaring that anyone born in the United States is a citizen; it also extended to blacks the rights of due process of law and equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | Rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or by any State on account of race, color,or previous condition of servitude |
| Jim Crow Laws | Any of the laws legalizing racial segregation of blacks and whites that were enacted in Southern states beginning in the 1880’s and enforced through the1950’s |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court case that established the controversial "separate but equal” doctrine by which segregation became legal as long as the facilities provided to blacks were equivalent to those provided to whites |
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