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Reconstruction |
americans everywhere agreed that the south needed to be rebuilt, but they disagreed bitterly over how to accomplish it. this is what this PERIOD in time was called |
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John Wilkes Booth |
the man who shot the Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head and killed him |
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Andrew Johnson |
Vice President who took Lincolns place when he died |
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amnesty |
immunity from prosecution - to all white Southerners, except Confederate leaders, who gave loyalty to the Union |
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Ten percent plan |
when 10 percent of the voters of a state took an oath of loyalty to the Union, the State could form a government and adopt a new constitution that banned slavery |
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Thaddeus Stevens |
a leading readical republican |
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Freedmen's Bureau |
a new government agency to help former enslaved persons, or freedmen |
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13th Amendment |
abolishes slavery in the U.S. |
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black codes |
Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves |
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14th Amendment |
Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws |
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Ku Klux Klan |
White supremacy organization that intimidated blacks out of their newly found liberties |
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Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
This Act was passed by Congress which was vetoed by President Johnson. This Act invalidated the state govn’ts formed under the Lincoln & Johnson plans and all the legal decisions made by those govn’ts. |
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Edwin Stanton |
Popular Secretary of War who is fired by Johnson and leads to Johnson's impeachment |
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impeach |
charge with an offense or misdemeanor |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
Commander of the Union army who was nicknamed "Unconditional Surrender" |
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15th Amendment |
citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude |
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Fredrick Douglass |
born a slave and later became an abolitonist |
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carpetbaggers |
northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican leaders during reconstruction |
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sharecroppers |
people who rent a plot of land from another person, and farm it in exchange for a share of the crop |
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Rutherford B. Hayes |
the 19th president and a general in the civil war |
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Compromise of 1877 |
Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river |
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poll tax |
a tax put on African American voters, hoping to get them to not vote |
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literacy test |
A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote |
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Jim Crow laws |
Laws that helped keep whites and blacks separate |
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segregation |
The separation of people of different races |
