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History Junior-Reconstruction
Mark Garcia/ US History/ Reconstruction Test/ Faith Christian School
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11th Grade
08/31/2012

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13th amendment
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abolished slavery
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14th amendment
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equal rights-equal protection under law
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15th amendment
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right to vote-universal male suffrage
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reconstruction
Definition
rebuilding the union
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infrastructure
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structures the community uses- helps make the city work
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railroad lines
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devastated
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cotton production
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major decline
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exodusters
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blacks that fled to kansas
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emancipation
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freedom from slavery
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black baptist church
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united freed slaves
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african methodist episcopal church
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united freed slaves
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freedmen's bureau
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organized by congress, aid for war refugees and former slaves
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freedmen
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former slaves
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emancipation proclamation
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all persons that were slaves are forever free
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lincolns second inaugural address
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how to bring the nation together
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lincolns reconstruction plan
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10% plan- if voters pledged 10% allegiance, they were back in the union
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radical republicans
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extreme in reconstruction plans
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thaddeus stevens
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most vocal radical republican- house of representatives(Penn)
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charles sumner
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radical republican- US senator(Mass)
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wade-davis bill (congress)
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"iron clad" oath, much stricter than lincolns plan
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radical republicans plan
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required 50% allegiance to union, gave blacks suffrage
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sen. benjamin wade (ohio)
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wade-davis bill
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rep. henry davis (maryland)
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wade-davis bill
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pocket veto
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congress adjourned and lincoln didnt sign bill, just let it die
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andrew johnson
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remained in congress after tennessee succeeded
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frederick douglass
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black, ex-slave who gained some political power
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johnsons reconstruction plan
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lenient plan
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tunis g campbell
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well educated, black minister, pushed for independence from whites
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st. catherines island
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coast of georgia, seized confederate land
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confiscated lands
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blacks were given land to occupy and work
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40 acres and a mule
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slogan of land given to blacks
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sharecropping
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blacks would work someones field and in return they would receive a portion of the harvest
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black codes
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laws that restricted freedoms of blacks
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suffrage
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the right to vote
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andrew johnson
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from tennessee
only southerner to remain in congress after succession
didnt believe in blacks rights
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