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American History Quiz
4.3 Notes & Voc
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History
8th Grade
09/14/2011

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Ku klux klan
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secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights
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Carpetbaggers
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what white southerners called republicans from the North who moved to the south during reconstruction
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Scalawags
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Name that southern democrats gave to white southern republicans during reconstruction
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Poll tax
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a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote
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Segregation
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forced separation of people of different races in public places
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Redeemers
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Group of southern democrats that helped return the democratic party to political power in the south during reconstruction and tried to limit the civil rights of African Americans
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Jim Crow Laws
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Laws that inforced segregation in the southern state
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Furtherford B. Hayes
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Who was the republican candidate in the election of 1876
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Samuel Tilden
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Who did the democrats nominate in the election of 1876
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10 Members of Congress
5 Memners of the Supreme Court
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Who decided who won the presidential election of 1876
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African American man, he refused to leave white-only section and was arrested. The supreme court ruled that Segregation was allowed if separation was equal. It became widespread across the country
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Who was Plessy? What happened to him? Why? What was the outcome of the Supreme Court decision? What was the affect it had on Americans?
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