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APUSH: Chapter 15: Reconstruction (1865-1877) Vocab

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show Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own government after ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States  
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Wade-Davis Bill   show
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show laws passed in the south just after the civil war aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit african american workers. was designed to force former slaves back to plantation labor  
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show 1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves and war refugees in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs.  
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Civil Rights Act of 1866   show
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show A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.  
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Reconstruction Act of 1867   show
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show 1870 constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude  
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American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA)   show
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National Woman Suffrage Association   show
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show Supreme Court decision in 1875 that suffrage rights were not inherent in citizenship and not granted by the 14th Amendment, Women were citizens, the Court ruled, but state legislatures could deny women the vote if they wished.  
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Sharecropping   show
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Union League   show
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Scalawags   show
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show northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican leaders during reconstruction - self seeking interlopes who carried all their property in cheap suitcases called carpetbags  
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convict leasing   show
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show A law that required "full and equal" access to jury service and to transportation and public accommodations, irrespective of race.  
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show private bank founded in 1865 that worked with Freedmen's Bureau/Union army across the South. economic dev.of the newly emancipated African-American communities. June 1874, bank failed, Congress refused 61,000 depositors, including many African Americans.  
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show the philosophy of John Locke and other advocates of the protection of individual rights and liberties by limiting government power. free trade, small government, low property taxes, and limitation of voting rights to men of education and property  
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Laissez-faire   show
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show 1872, This was a fraudulent construction company created to take the profits of the Union Pacific Railroad. Using government funds for the railroad, the Union Pacific directors gave padded construction contracts to Congress members  
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"Redemption"   show
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show A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in the South after the Civil War. promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups  
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show passed in Congress in 1870 signed by U. S. Grant. freedmen rights under 14/15 amendments. Authorized fed prosecutions, military intervention, martial law to suppress terrorist the Enforcement Laws largely succeeded in shutting down Klan activities.  
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Slaughter House cases   show
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US vs Cruikshank   show
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show 17th President of the US, from Tennessee, V.P. when Lincoln was killed opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. 1st US impeached president, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president.  
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show leader of the Radical republicans in the Senate from Massachusetts and was in the senate. His two main goals were breaking the power of wealthy planters and ensuring that freedmen could vote. was beaten by preston brooke  
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Thaddeus Stevens   show
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Ulysses S. Grant   show
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton   show
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Robert Smalls   show
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Blanche K. Bruce   show
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Nathan Bedford Forrest   show
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Civil Right Cases   show
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