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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sharecropping | The system that replaced slavery |
| Industrial Revolution | A shift of economy from agriculture base to a dependence primarily on manufacturing |
| Exodusters | A name given to many African Americans who used their status as free people to build new lives in Kansas and other Western States |
| Centennial | In 1876 the US celebrated its 100th birthday |
| Extermination of the Buffalo | Americans would shoot the buffalo to prevent Native Americans from having a food supply |
| The Bourbon Democrats | Aristocratic people from the planter class that wanted to rid any radical reconstruction and restore the political system to the way it was before the civil war |
| Louisiana Lottery | A corrupt organization that benefits few people controlled by the Bourbon Democrats |
| Patronage | Public officials give jobs/help to people as a reward for their support |
| Jim Crow Laws | Segregation laws put in place after the civil war. Separate but equal. |
| Native American Boarding Schools | Place where they would take young Native American children so they could teach them the way of the White Man. Kill the Indian save the man. |