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Gr8 SS Ch18
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | economy and social structures were rebuilt after the Civil War |
| Ten Percent Plan | a Southern state could rejoin the Union if 10 percent of its population took an Oath of Allegiance to the U.S. and freed their slaves |
| Wade-Davis Bill | stricter than the Ten Percent Plan; required states to have a majority of the population take an Oath of Allegiance |
| Freedman's Bureau | helped former slaves through legal food and housing, oversight, education, health care, and employment contracts with private landowners |
| 13th Amendment | amendment that abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | amendment that gives all people equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | amendment that gives everyone the right to vote |
| Black Codes | state and local laws that discriminated against blacks |
| carpetbagger | a negative word for Northerners that Southerners used after the Civil War |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | upheld state laws which segregated blacks and whites |