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Amendments: 13th   banned slavery  
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Amendments14th   made African Americans citizens  
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Amendments15th   gave African-Americans the right to vote  
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Segregation   to separate the races to keep them apart - in such situations housing schools, restrooms, drinking fountains, etc. to separate the races to keep them apart - in such situations housing schools, restrooms, drinking fountains, etc.  
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Carpetbagger   a nickname for a Northern who went South during reconstruction in the hope of getting rich  
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Sharecropper   a farmer that worked on land owned by another person - many freed slaves in the South after the Civil War became sharecroppers  
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Manifest Destiny   Idea held by Americans during the 1800’s that the United States should stretch across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans  
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Transcontinental Railroad   a railroad that stretches across a continent - the first U.S. transcontinental railroad was built in 1863 by the Union Pacific & Central Pacific railroads  
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Homestead Act   a law passed in 1862 to encourage people to settle in the West by giving a farmer 160 acres of free land  
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Geopolitics:   how the geography of a country affects what happens to the country  
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