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34 Cards in this Set
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Amnesty
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A full pardon.
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John Wilkes Booth
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Confederate sympathizer who shot and assassinated president Lincoln.
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Andrew Johnson
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Vice president who assumed the presidency after Lincoln died.
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13th Amendment
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Congress passed this in January of 1865; it abolished slavery.
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Black Codes
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Resembled pre-civil war slave codes.
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Thaddeus Stevens
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Insisted that African Americans be given the right to vote.
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Frederick Douglass
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Demanded the "immediate, unconditional, and universal right to vote of the black man in every state of the Union."
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Freedman's Bureau
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Made by congress to aid the millions of southerners left homeless by the war.
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14th Amendment
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Passed in June of 1866, it required states to extend equal citizenship to African Americans and all people born in the US.
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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The first civil rights law in the nation's history.
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Reconstruction Acts
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Divided the former confederacy into five military districts.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Was nominated for president in the 1868 election.
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15th Amendment
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Stated that the right of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied by the US or any state on account of race, color, etc.
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Carpetbaggers
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Northern republicans, of both black and white, who were eager to participate in the state conventions.
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Scalawags
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"Scoundrel", people who backed the Union cause and then supported reconstruction.
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Ku Klux Klan
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A secret terrorist group who prevented blacks from voting. Many confederate/southern men joined.
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Enforcement Acts
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Three laws that empowered the federal government to combat terrorism with military force and to prosecute guilty individuals.
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Panic of 1873
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A severe economic depression that had hit the nation.
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
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Prohibited businesses that served the public from discriminating African Americans.
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Redeemers
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Supporters of white-controlled governments.
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Samuel J. Tilden
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Elected in the presidential election against Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Compromise of 1877
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The deal between the Democrats and Republicans to defuse crisis.
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Sharecropping
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Where a farmer worked a parcel of land in return for share of the crop, a cabin, seed, tools, and a mule.
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Crop-lien system
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Arrangement where sharecroppers promised their crops to local merchants who then sold them goods on credit.
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Poll taxes
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Fixed taxes imposed on every voter.
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Literacy tests
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Tests that barred those who could not read from voting.
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Segregation
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Separation of the races.
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Jim Crow Laws
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Unfair laws that kept blacks from voting.
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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A lawsuit brought in 1896 after African American Homer Plessy was denied a seat in a first-class railway car.
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Madame C.J. Walker
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A leading African American entrepreneur who was one of the first women to become a millionaire.
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Booker T. Washington
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Believed that African Americans should concentrate on achieving economic independence.
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Ida B. Wells
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Focused her attention on stopping the lynching of African Americans.
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Reconstruction
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Rebuilding the former Confederate states and reuniting the nation.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Republican who ran for presidency in the 1876 elections.
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