reconstruction

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reconstruction

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process of reuniting the country and rebuilding the South after the Civil War

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amnesty

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an official pardon; prevents you from being trialled for a crime later (Southerners except Confederate leaders who gave loyalty to the Union)

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radical

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extreme; more violent

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freedmen

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a new government set up by the president and government that help former enslaved people

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John Wilkes Booth

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assassinated Abraham Lincoln

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Andrew Johnson

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Vice President who became President after Lincoln’s assassination; later impeached

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black codes

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laws that aimed to control freed men and women; trampled the rights of African Americans

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override

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when Congress has enough votes to defeat vetoes or bills that become laws

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Edwin Stanton

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Sec. of War during the Civil War; took charge after Lincoln was assassinated; was dismissed by Johnson ultimately leading to his impeachment trial

Question 10

impeach

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formally charge with wrongdoing; the act of removing someone from office; requires 2/3rds of Senate to pass

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Ulysses S. Grant

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The Republican’s presidential candidate who won the election of 1868; received the most African American votes in the South

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Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce

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2 African Americans in the Senate

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scalawags

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“worthless rascals”; Southern Whites who backed the Republicans

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carpetbagger

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Northern Republicans who went to the South with their belongings in cheap suitcases made out of carpet fabric to make $$$ and rebuild

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corruption

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dishonest or illegal actions

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sharecropping

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a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent; economic method that was used in the South after the war; did not allow African-Americans to move up in society

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integrated

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public areas that allowed BOTH white and African American people

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reconciliation

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coming together again

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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man who became president after the Compromise of 1877, Republican

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Samuel Tilden

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Democratic presidential nominee during the Election of 1876; won 184 votes but ended up losing by 1 electoral vote

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Election of 1876

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one of the closest elections in US History; caused the end of Reconstruction

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commission

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a group of seven Republicans, seven Democrats, and one independent to review the election results

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cash crops

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crops that could be sold for money

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poll tax

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a fee that people had to pay before voting; prevented many African Americans and poor whites from voting

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literacy test

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voters had to read and explain difficult parts of state constitution or the Federal Constitution; prevented many African Americans and poor whites from voting

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grandfather clauses

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Southern states did not allow African Americans to vote if any of their relatives had been a slave; Jim Crow Law; prevented many African Americans from voting

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segregation

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the separation of races

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Supreme Court case that legalized segregation in the US as long as it was "equal"

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lynching

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angry mob kills a person by hanging; many African Americans were lynched

Question 30

W.E.B Du Bois

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African American writer and civil rights leader