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Civil War KRMS 8-1
Terms for civil war test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | Rebuilding |
| Poll Tax | Pay money to vote |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that discriminated against African Americans and created segregation |
| Ku Klux Klan | A racist group |
| Confederate states rejoin union | Write new constitution that follows US constitution |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who went south to help |
| Scalawags | Southerners who worked for the union |
| Plessy Vs. Ferguson | Law suite- legalized segregation " separate but equal " |
| Sharecropping | Kept African Americans powerless for many years and limited their economic freedom |
| Lynching | Execute or hang |
| Conditions of South after Civil War | Cities were ruined |
| Freedmen | Ex-slaves |
| President Johnson Problem | Sided with southern goals |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Helped ex-slaves |
| Radical Republicans | Group from congress to support Reconstruction |
| Black Codes | Southern laws after Civil War denied former slaves new rights |
| Union troops in south after Civil War | To protect African Americans |
| 13th Amendment | Stopped slavery |
| 14th Amendment | No state can take away a person's life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness without a court case |
| 15th Amendment | Gave African Americans the right to vote |