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Ch. 4 Vocab
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11th Grade
10/10/2012

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amnesty
Definition
to give full pardon to all southerners, excluding high ranking Confederate leaders and a few others
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reconstruction
Definition
rebuilding the former Confederate states and rebuilding the nation
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John Wilkes Booth
Definition
shot President Lincoln at Fords theater
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Andrew Johnson
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After Lincoln's death, took position as president
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13th Amendment
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Congress passed in January 1865 to abolish slavery
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Black Codes
Definition
resembled pre-Civl War slaved codes; laws limiting the freedom of former slaves
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Thaddeus Stevens
Definition
Radical Republican who insisted that African Americans be given the right to vote
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Frederick Douglass
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demanded "the immediate, unconditonal, and universal enfranchisement of the blakc man in every state of the Union."
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Freedmen's Bureau
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distributed food and clothing, served as an employment agency, set up hospitals, and operated schools
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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declared that everyone born in the US was a citizen with full civil rights, but did not guarantee voting rights
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14th Amendment
Definition
required states to extend equal citizenship to African Americans and all people
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Reconstruction Acts
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divided the Confederacy into 5 military districts
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Ulysses S. Grant
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lacked political experience, but was a war hero; won elction of 1868
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Fifteenth Amendment
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"The right of citizens to the US to vote shall not be dinied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition to servitude
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carpetbaggers
Definition
northern republicans who imposed their ideas on the way of life in the south
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scalawags
Definition
scoundrels
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
secret terrorist group to keep African Americans from voting
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Enforcement Acts
Definition
three laws that empowered the federal government ot combat terrorism with military force and to prosecute guilty individuals
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Panic of 1873
Definition
severe economic depression
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
Definition
prohibited businesses that served the public from discriminating against african americans
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Redeemers
Definition
supporters of white controlled governments
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Samuel J. Tilden
Definition
Deomocrat who ran against Hayes for the 1876 election
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Definition
won the 1876 election due to electoral votes
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
in return of the democrats' acceptance of Hayes as president, the Republicans agreed to withdraw the remaining federal troops from the south
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sharecropping
Definition
a farmer worked a parcel of land in return for a share of the crop, a cabin, seed, tools, and a mule.
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crop-lien system
Definition
any outstanding debts would be added to the bills the following year
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poll taxes
Definition
fixed taxes imposed on every voter
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literacy tests
Definition
tests that barred those who could not read from voting
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segregation
Definition
separation of the races
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Jim Crow laws
Definition
laws created to enforce segregation
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Definition
a lawsuit brought in 1896 after African American Homer Plessy was denied a seat in a first class railway car
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Madame C. J. Walker
Definition
a leading African American entrepreneur who was one of the first women in the US to become a millionaire
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Booker T. Washington
Definition
believed that African Americans should concentrate on achieving economic independence which he saw as the key politically and social equality
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Ida B. Wells
Definition
focused her attention on stopping the lynching of African Americans
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