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Alabama History Chapter 6
Study cards for Chapter 6 Alabama History
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4th Grade
11/15/2011

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President Lincoln
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Whose plan for reconstruction demanded that southern states ratify 13th Amendment, nullify Ordinance of Secession, pay debts
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14th Amendment
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What amendment to the US Constitution states that all former slaves are citizens of the United States
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Radical Republicans
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Who passed the First Reconstruction Act because they believed southern states were not doing enough to protect freedmen
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William Savery
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Who was interested in educating former slaves and worked with others to found Talladega College
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Birmingham
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What city began as a railroad crossroads
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13th Amendment

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What Amendment to the constitution states that slavery is outlawed in the United States
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iron

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What was produced in Birmingham because iron ore, limestone, and coal were mined there
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railroads

Definition
Many Alabama cities and towns grew after the war because what connected the cities and towns to outside areas
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Alabama
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Mills located where could produce cheaper thread and cloth because mills were built close to where cotton was grown and wages were low
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Spanish-American War

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What war began when the US battleship, Maine, exploded in Havana Harbor
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Dr. William Gorgas
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He was a doctor who gained fame during the war when he discovered a way to prevent the spread of yellow fever
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mercantile
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Relating to merchants and the goods they sell
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sharecropper
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A person who gave part of the proceed of crop sales to landowner in exchange for rent and seeds
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Populist Party
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Stood for helping poor black and white framers
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carpetbagger
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Northerners who came south after the war for political or economic gain
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speculator

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People who engage in risky business ventures that offer the chance of large profits
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market center
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Locations in which good are produced and/or traded
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Freedmen’s Bureau

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Distributed food and clothing to former slaves
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Radical Republicans
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A group that passed the first Reconstruction Act
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scalawag
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Southerners who supported Reconstruction in order to take advantage of other Southerners
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