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Mannix SS Ch 16

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Abe Lincoln 16th President - Civil War President - Killed by John Wilkes Booth - wrote Emancipation Proclamation - gave Gettysburg Address
Amnesty grant a pardon to (a group of people)
Freedman former slave
John Wilkes Booth Assassin who kills Lincoln in Ford's Theatre
Andrew Johnson Vice President who succeeded Lincoln after the assassination and was the first president to be impeached
Black Codes Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
Scalawags white southerners who supported the changes of Reconstruction
Carpet Baggers Northerner who went South to take advantage of Reconstruction
Impeachment Formal accusation against a president to remove them from office.
Poll Tax tax required before a person can vote
Literacy Test Examination to see if a person can read and write; used in the past to restrict voting rights
Grandfather Clause A law that said if your grandfather could vote you did not have to take a literacy test or pay a toll
Segregation the separation or isolation of a race
Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court said that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional
Sharecropper a farmer who pays some of their crop to a landowner as rent
Ku Klux Klan White supremacy organization that intimidated blacks out of their newly found liberties
13th Amendment abolished slavery
14th Amendment Defines citizenship and makes freed blacks US citizens
15th Amendment This amendment granted black men the right to vote.
Radical Republican Republican who believed that Congress
should direct Reconstruction
Civil Rights Act of 1866 gave further rights to freed slaves after the Civil War
Jim Crow Laws Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
Wade Davis Bill this bill stated that a state could reenter the unoin when 50% of states registerd voters took an oath of loyalty to the Union.
Freedmen's Bureau helped the freed slaves get food jobs clothing and transportation
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