S.s 11\6\24 Flashcards
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Men and woman freed from slavery
Freedman
Rebuilding the us
Reconstruction
Limitation of african american rights
Black code
Northren citizens who moved to the south after the war
carpet bagger
democrat term for white southerners
Scalawag
People work on a land and instead of money they get a share of the crops
Share cropping
Wanted to help freedman and break the power of wealthy planters
Radical republic
Banned slavery
13th amendment
Gave all men in the U.S citizenship
14th amendment
Gave every man the right to vote no matter the race
15th amendment
Made organized attacks to african americans
Ku Klux Klan
Southern democrats agreed to support commissions
Compromise of 1877
Requires voters to pay a Fee each time they voted
poll tax
Required voters to read and explain a part of the constitution
Literacy test
If your grandparents voted u can vote
Grandfather clauses
a separation of races
segregation
The president during the civil war and during some of the reconstruction
Abraham lincon
president after lincoln, was as successful to abolish slavery but planned to limit blacks freedom
Andrew Johnson
elected on november 3, 1868
Ulysses grant
Arrested for boarding a train only for whites, started separate but equal
Homer Plessy
What was the freedmen’s bureau
Helps freedman by giving them resources, and provides newly freedman clothes, food, education, and medicine
What percent needs to swear loyalty in lincoln’s plan
10% of confederate states
WHat was johnsons reconstruction plan
To continue lincoln’s plan and pardon hundreds of former confederate states
WHat did the radical republicans propose
To take over reconstruction and help give blacks the right to vote then make 50% of them men swear loyalty
