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Civil War
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History
8th Grade
01/12/2010

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13th Amendment
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Banned slavery in the United States of America
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14th Amendment
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15th Amendment
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Gave suffrage to everyone regardless of race
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Alexander Stephens
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Black codes
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Restrictions for free black former slaves
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Carpetbaggers
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Freedman's Bureau
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Originally the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, it was a U.S. government agency that gave out food, clothing, fuel, and other supplies for white men and black freedmen
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Henry Michael Turner
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Herschel Johnson
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John Wilkes Booth
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An actor who assassinated President Lincoln
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Ku Klux Klan
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Lynching
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Execution of blacks by a mob
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Postbellum
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The end of the period following the civil war
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Reconstruction
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The period after the civil war
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Rufus Bullock
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Scalawags
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Sharecopping
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The landowner allows renters to use land, but they must share the crops the grew
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Sherman neckties
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Railways destroyed by Sherman's crews that resembled neckties
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Sidney Lanier
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Tenant farming
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Living and farming on land owned by someone else who may loan tools and seeds
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