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U.S. reconstruction era
the reconstruction era after the civil war
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8th Grade
11/03/2012

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Black Codes
Definition
Codes to try to control african american life
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Impeach
Definition
To formally remove from office
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Scalawags
Definition
Name given to white southerners that supported the radical republicans
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Carpetbaggers
Definition
A term given by southerners to northerners that went down to the south with carpets holding there luggage
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Redeemers
Definition
democrats that were taking back the south
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Cash Crop
Definition
a crop that was sold for money
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Poll tax
Definition
a tax that had to be paid before people were allowed to vote
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Literacy test
Definition
a test of literacy that you had to pass to be able to vote
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Grandfather clause
Definition
a clause that said for you to vote your grandfather had to vote
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Disenfranchisement
Definition
the revocation of the right of the right to vote of a person or group of people
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Thadius stevens 
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Leader of the radical republicans
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John Wilkes Booth
Definition
person who assasinated Abraham Lincoln
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Edwin stanton
Definition
person who andrew johnson tried to fire without consent of congress
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Ulysses S. Grant
Definition
General of the confederate army who served two terms as president after andrew johnson
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Andrew Johnson
Definition
not so smart democrat who took office after lincons assainaion
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Hiram Revels
Definition
Was a blak minister who was the first african american in the U.S. Senate
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Definition
President after Ulysses S. Grant who was the final president of reconstruction
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Because the scalawags agreed with the republicans plan for reconstruction but the southerners did not
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Why did southerners dispise scalawags?
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To regain white surpremacy. Showing off dead bodies of african americans and by tourtoring the too
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What was the purpose of the KKK? What kind of tactics did they use?
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The KKK terrorized black voters and they regained controll of there state governments 
Definition
Why did the democratic party rise in 1874?
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Republicans
Definition
what political party was in favor of reconstruction and equallity?
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To let them govern themselves
Definition
What was Rutherford B. Hayes plan for reconstruction?
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Cotton,coal,iron,tobacco,lumber
Definition
What industries was the new south getting involved in?
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Breaking the mup and devideing them equally
Definition
What were farmers in the south doing to their large plantations that ultimatley hurt there econemy?
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the ten percent plan where 10% of the stae had to swear alligence to the U.S. constitution to join the union.
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What was lincolns plan for reconstruction?
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congress wanted harsher punishments on the south
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What was the plan from congress that oppossed thw 10% plan
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people who wanted to give 100% freedom to the blacks and punish the south for having slaves
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Who were the radical republicans?
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The Freedmens Bureau
Definition
What agency helped freed african americans by granting the mland and establishing schools?
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John Wilkes Boothe/ April 14th 1865/ Ford's thearte
Definition
Who assasinated Abraham Lincoln? When? Where.
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Andrew Johnson
Definition
Who was president after Abraham Lincoln?
Term
His plan was that most southerners would be granted amnesty if they swore allegence to the union but the RR wanted them to be punished more
Definition
What was Andrew Johnson's view of reconstruction and how did that differ from the Radical republicans?
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because he tried to fire member of the U.S. senate Edwin Stanton without consent of congress
Definition
Why was andrew johnson nearly impeached?
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Uysses S. Grant
Definition
Who was president after Andrew Johnson?
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