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AM History vocab
chapter 3 vocab
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History
10th Grade
08/28/2014

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Reconstruction

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To rebuild or re-establish something.
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Amnesty

Definition
A general pardon by a government for political offences.
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13th Amendment

Definition
Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in the U.S.  in 1865.
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Black Codes

Definition
Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War to stop the movement of freedmen and to return them to plantation labor.
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Freedmen's Bureau

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Federal Agency set up after the Civil War to distribute goods to poor southerners.
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Disenfranchisement

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Exclusion from voting privileges.
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14th Amendment

Definition
Declared all nativeborn/naturalized persons were citizens and had the same rights as citizens.
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Scalawag

Definition
Southern whites who supported Radical Reconstruction and joined with blacks in Reconstruction legislatures.
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Carpetbagger

Definition
Insult to northerners who moved to the south during Reconstruction.
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15th Amendment

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Declared that the right to vote should not be denied, "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

 

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Coalition

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Temporary alliance to promote a common cause.
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Mississippi Plan

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Mississippi Democrates Reconstruction to force all whites into Democratic Party and intimidate black voters.
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Compromise of 1877

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Gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in return for the ending of Reconstruction in the South.
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Share Tenantry

Definition
Farmer and family work a plot of land in exchange for part of the crop.
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Jim Crow Laws

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Southern state laws following Reconstruction that segregatred schools, railway cars, and all public facilities.
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Solid South

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Expression to denote the Democratic Party's control of southern politics.
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Plessy v.s. Ferguson

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Supreme court decision, upheld segregation. "Seperate but equal"
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