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7th Grade
04/05/2009

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Emancipation
Definition
the freeing of the slaves
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Amnesty
Definition
a forgetting of any passed offence
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Carpet Baggers
Definition
white northerners who went to the south after the war
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Scalawags
Definition
poor white farmers that were angry at planters
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suffrage
Definition
the right to vote
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Freedman Burrow
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Radical Republicans
Definition
people who wanted to punish the south
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Abraham Lincoln
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wanted to go easy on the south after the war when they were rejoining the union
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Andrew Johnson
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had the same plan as Lincoln but they had to pay back confederate debt and swear allegiance to the union and ratify the 13th amendment
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10 percent plan
Definition
Lincoln and Johnson's rule that each southern family had to pay back 10% of their debts
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grandfather clause
Definition
the southern plan to keep black from voting by seeing if their grandfather could read of write. If he could, they could vote
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poll tax
Definition
when people had to pay to vote
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literacy tests
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when people were voting, you had to be able to read or write to be able to vote
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13th
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abolished slavery
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14th
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the amendment that gave blacks equal citizenship to whites
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15th
Definition
the amendment that gave blacks the right to vote
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