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Reconstruction
Mr. Carson
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Black codes | Laws that limited the rights and freedom of African Americans after the Civil War |
| KKK | A racist group that used violence and fear to target Black Americans and other |
| Sharecropping | A system where farmers rented land and paid the owner with part of their crops |
| Reconstruction | The period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt and the rights of formerly enslaved people were addressed |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that enforced racial segregation and discrimination against Black Americans |
| Election of 1876 | A disputed election that led to the end of Reconstruction in the South |
| Bureau freedom | An agency that helped formerly enslaved people after the Civil War with food, education, jobs, and housing |
| Vagrancy Laws | Laws that punished people for being unemployed of without a permanent home |
| 13th amendment | Abolished slavery in the United States |
| 14th amendment | Gave citizenship and equal rights to people born in the US |
| 15th amendment | Gave Black men the right to vote |
| Hiram reveals | The first African American to serve in the U.S Senate |
| Radical Republicans | Republicans who wanted strong laws to protect the rights of formerly enslaved people after the Civil War |
| Segregation | The separation of people based on race |
| Carpetbagger | A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War |