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Reconstruction
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5th Grade
09/22/2010

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Jim Crow Laws
Definition
Laws that enforced segregation
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Reconstruction
Definition
Rebuilding and healing of the country after the Civil War
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13th Amendment
Definition
abolished slavery
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Freedmen's Bureau
Definition
created to help former slaves after the war
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15th Amendment
Definition
gave all males the right to vote
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14th Amendment
Definition
granted citizenship
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Black codes
Definition
law that denied African Americans certain rights
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freedmen
Definition
people freed from slavery
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sharecropping
Definition
rented land from landowners and paid their rent with a portion of crop
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segregation
Definition
separation of blacks and whites
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impeachment
Definition
to bring charges of wrongdoing against an elected official
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
used violence to restore white control
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