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HistoryNotes 17
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | the process of readmitting the former confederate states to the Unions |
| Ten Percent Plan | it offered southerners amnesty, or pardon, for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion |
| 13th Amendment | made slavery illegal throughout the United States |
| Freedman's Bureau | an agency providing relief for freed-people and certain poor people in the south |
| Andrew Johnson | Vice President that took over the presidency when Abraham Lincoln was assasinated,was later impeached. |
| Black Codes | laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans |
| Radical Republicans | they wanted the federal goverment to force goverment to force change in the South |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | this provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white americans |
| 14th Amendment | overturned the Dred Scott case by granting citizenship to all people born in ther United States (except for Native Americans) |
| Reconstuction Acts | divided the south into five districts |
| Impeachment | is the process used by legistlative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official |
| 15th Amendment | which gave African American the right to vote |
| Capretbagger | Some of these office-holder were northern-born repubicans who had moved south after the war |
| Scalawags | Democrats belived that these southerners had betrayled the south by voting for the republican party |
| Poll tax | was a special tax people had to pay before they could vote |
| Segregation | forced sepraration of whites and blacks in public places |
| Sharecropping | landowners provided the land, tools, and supplies, and sharecroppers provided the labor |