Transcript Reconstruction

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1. amnesty (p. 403)- it gave full pardon to all southerners
except high ranking confederate leaders and others who
would accept to end slavery
2. Reconstruction (p. 403)-rebuilding the former confederate
states and reuniting the nation
3. John Wilkes Booth (p. 404)-shot the president as he and
his wife watched a play at the Ford’s theatre
4. 13th Amendment (p. 405)- congress had passed in
January 1865 to abolish slavery.
5. Black Codes (p. 405)-closely resembled Pre-Civil
War slave codes. Simply recycled its old code,
substituting the word freedman for slave.
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6. Radical Republicans (p. 407)-the issue of Africans Americans
voting rights proved particularly, divisive. The most concern was keeping
former Confederates out of government.
7. Freedmen’s Bureau (p. 409)-Created by the republicans in
march of 1865 to aid the millions of southerners left homeless and hungry
by the war. The bureau distributed food and clothing, served employment
agency, set up hospitals, and operated schools.
8. Civil rights Act of 1866 (p. 410)-the first civil rights law in the
nations history although the act declared that everyone born in the united
states was a citizen with full civil rights, it did not guarantee voting rights.
9. 14th Amendment (p. 410)-Constitutional amendment
giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized
in the United States, except for American Indians.
10. 15th Amendments (p. 414)-Extention of suffrage to
African Americans men.
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11. carpetbaggers (p. 416)-Northern Republicans who moved
to the south during reconstruction.
12. scalawags (p. 416)-Southern republicans who were giving
this name by former Confederates during Reconstruction.
Were known as betrayers of their country and race.
13. Ku Klux Klan (p. 416)-society created by former
Confederates in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep
African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
14. Enforcement Acts (p. 417)-3 laws that empowered the
federal Government to combat terrorism w/ military force to
prosecute guilty individuals.
15. Civil Rights Acts of 1875 (p. 418)-Prohibited businesses that
served the public from discriminating against African
Americans.
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16. Compromise of 1877 (p. 419)- to defuse the crisis,
leading republicans and southern democrats struck a deal.
Democrats made an acceptance of Hayes as president,
Republicans agreed to withdraw the remaining federal troops
from the south.
17. sharecropping (p. 420)-A system where a farmer worked
a parcel of land in return for a share of the crop.
18. literacy tests (p. 421)- test that required people to
know how to read in order for them to vote.
19. poll taxes (p. 421)- fees charged before someone
could vote.
20. segregation (p. 422)- separation of the races used
across the South.
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21. Jim Crow Laws (p. 422)- a series of laws designed to
enforce separation of the races.
22. Plessy v. Ferguson (p. 422)- lawsuit concerning
equal rights through the 14th Amendment that lost
claiming that “separate but equal” facilities existed.
23. Madame CJ Walker (p. 424)- an early African
American entrepreneur who was the first female
millionaire in the US.
24. Booker T. Washington (p. 425)- African American
leader who discouraged protests in favor of job
training and economic independence.
25. Ida B. Wells (Barnett) (p. 425)- African American
leader who spoke out nationally about lynching.