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Reconstruction
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8th Grade
05/02/2017

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Reconstruction Era
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the period after the Civil War, especially in the South
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Black Codes
Definition
to regulate the lives of the freedmen, these codes were to preserve traditional Southern society
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Freedman's Bureau
Definition
Congress established this organization to help the freed slaves with food, clothing, and medical care
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Radical Republicans
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a group of Northern Congressmen who wanted freedmen to be granted full political equality
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Civil Rights Act
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a bill guaranteeing freedmen's rights
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13th Amendment
Definition
abolished slavery throughout the nation
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14th Amendment
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granted U.S. citizenship to all former slaves
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15th Amendment
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guaranteed the voting rights to former slaves
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Carpetbaggers
Definition
Northerners who went to south
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Scalawags
Definition
Southerners who had sided with the North during the Civil War
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Hiram Rhodes Revels
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First African American to serve in the U.S. Congress
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Sharecropping
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Former plantation owners provided livestock, tools, and land to former slaves in exchange for a share of the crop
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New South
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used to describe the emergence of a modern, industrial South
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Homestead Act
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act stated that any citizen could occupy 160 acres of government land if the settler improved the land and after 5 years he would own the land
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Morrill Act
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act provided each state with 30,000 acres of federal land times the number of its members in Congress; state could then sell land and use it to build public colleges
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Transcontinental Railroad
Definition
railroad which goes from the west coast to east coast
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Indian Wars
Definition
battles fought against the Native Americans in effort to clear routes to the West for white settlers and establish government control over this territory.
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Dawes Act
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act gave 160 acres of farmland to the Native Americans
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National Labor Union
Definition
first attempt to unite all trade unions into a single federation
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Knights of Labor
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succeeded the National Labor Union and had grown into a national organization with more than 70,000 members
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freedmen
Definition
freed slaves
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Reconstruction Act
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Congress passed this act to deal with how the Southern states would be governed; established military rule over former Confederate states
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
founded by ex-confederate soldiers, was a secret fraternal organization; they used terrorism to oppose the granting of civil rights to African Americans
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segregating
Definition
separate blacks and whites in schools and other public facilities
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frontier
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the line separating areas of settlement from "unsettled" wilderness territory
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Reservations
Definition
unwanted land given to the Native Americans
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Bessemer process
Definition
made steel production easier
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trade untion
Definition
association of workers who act together in making demands to employers for higher wages and better working conditions
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