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History and Sgregation
History pages 417-431, 667-669, 679-682
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8th Grade
01/23/2007

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Thirteenth Ammendment
Definition
States that slavery in the US is dead.
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Fourteenth Ammendment
Definition
Defines citizens rights. States that US can be segregated as long as facilities ar the same.
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Fifteenth Ammendment
Definition
Voting Rights are given to blacks, but not women.
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Twenty-Fourth Ammendment
Definition
States that the right to vote will not be deminished by failing to pay taxes.
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Scalawag
Definition
White southerner who supported radical republicans.
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Carpetbagger
Definition
A northerner who went to the South during Reconstruction.
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Sharecroppers
Definition
Farmer who works land owned by another and gives the land owner a share of the crop at harvest time.
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Segregation
Definition
Seperation of people of different races.
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Jim Crow
Definition
Laws that kept blacks out of certain public places.
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Wade-Davis Bill
Definition
Reconstruction plan passed by Republicans in Congress in July 1864. Vetoed by Lincoln.
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Freedman's Bureau
Definition
Government agency that helped free slaves.
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Radical Republicans[image]
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Believed that rich southern planters caused the war.Wanted to make sure 'aristocrats' did not regain power.Protected rights of freedmen.
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Moderate Republicans
Definition
Wanted to keep power.Also wanted to help freedmen. Did not think they should interfere with Southern affairs.
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KKK (Ku Klux Klan)[image]
Definition
Worked to keep blacks and carpetbaggers out of office. Claimed to be ghosts of Confederate soldier.Murdered hundreds of black voters and their white allies.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Definition
Protected the right of all citizens to vote and outlawed discrimination in hiring.
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Voting Rights Act
Definition
Ended literecy tests.
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Black Panthers
Definition
Radicals who encouraged blacks to arm themselves and fight for their rights.
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Black Codes
Definition
Set of laws that limited the rights of freedmen. Passed by southern legislatures.
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Presidential Plan vs Congressional PLan
(list and explain)
Definition
President Johnson did not want states to ratify the Fourteenth Ammendment.


President Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights act. Congress overrode the veto.
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Impeachment of President Johnson
Definition
During trial, became clear he was not guily of high crimes and misdemeanors but that the charges were political in character. Final vote was 35 to 19. One vote short of impeachment.
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**Plessy Case**
Definition
Allowed segregation as long as black and white facilities wer equal. Yeah right.
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**Brown Case**
Definition
Brown claimed that seperate schools could not possibly provide equal education. Segregated schools violated the fourteenth ammendment.
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Events in Montegomry
Definition
Rosa parks refused to give up seat to a white.
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Black Muslims
Definition
Believed that african americans could succeed only if they seperated from white society.
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Black Muslims
Definition
Believed that african americans could succeed only if they seperated from white society.
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Rosa Parks
Definition
Refused to give up her seat to a white on a bus.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Definition
Black Civil Rights leader.
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