Vocabulary Flashcards

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Black Codes

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Defining Blacks’ place in society.

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Interracial

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The mixing of two races.

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Segregation

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Separating two races.

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Jim Crow

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The stereotype of African Americans used to represent their race.

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Miscegenation

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Interracial (Note: illegal at the time and still looked down upon in the South).

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Public

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“For the good of the whole” They made these laws to keep the public whites safe.

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Accommodation

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Living space, a place where people spend time.

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Undermine

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Going against a person

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Equal Protection (14th)

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To have equal rights, same as everyone else.

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Lincoln’s war powers to free slaves in the South.

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Reconstruction

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Time period in South after the Civil War.

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Succession

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Removing from a group (Union vs. Confederacy)

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Due Process (14th)

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Right to a trial as a citizen

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Federalism

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United State’s government—> centralized.

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Amnesty

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Giving a clean slate; forgiving

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13th Amendment

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Abolish all slavery/servitude.

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14th Amendment

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Due process and equal protection

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15th Amendment

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All men had the right to vote.