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APUSH Chapter 16 Vocabulary
APUSH Chapter 16 Vocabulary
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10th Grade
12/12/2010

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John Wilkes Booth
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Man that assassinated Abraham Lincoln
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Susan B. Anthony
Definition
prominent american civil rights leader that led the womens rights movement and started women's suffrage
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Thaddeus Stevens
Definition
Leader of radical republican party that later was a prominent member of the House of Representatives during Reconstruction
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Horace Greeley
Definition
Founder of Liberal Republican party and stated the New York Tribune- a very influential newspaper.
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Redeemers
Definition
Conservative, pro-business democrats during Reconstruction Era
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Night riders
Definition
Southern rebels that commited acts of revenge after the civil war
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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Definition
Lincoln's plan for reconstruction. Offered help to most southerners (excluding high ranked confederate military officials)
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Wade-Davis Bill
Definition
program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans
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Suffrage
Definition
the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed refugees and freedmen during Reconstruction
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Black codes
Definition
Laws passed that limited the rights of blacks in America
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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federal law in the United States declaring that everyone born in the U.S. and not subject to any foreign power is a citizen, without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude
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Radical Republicans
Definition
Men that supported civil rights for freedmen during reconstruction and were strongly against democrats of the south
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“Black Republicans”
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emphasizes patriotism, independence and self-sufficiency, free enterprise, and strong cultural conservatism within the context of the Black church.
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13th Amendment
Definition
officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
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14th Amendment
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allowed blacks to be citizens of the United States
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15th Amendment
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prohibition of denying a citizen the right to vote on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude
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Military Reconstruction Act
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Creation of five military districts in the seceded states that ratified the 14th amendment
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Presidential impeachment trial
Definition
trial on charges of a civil officer along with the conviction of that officer for his charges
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Tenure of Office Act
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denied the President of the United States the power to remove anyone who had been appointed by a past President without the advice and consent of the United States Senate
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Carpetbagger
Definition
negative term Southerners gave to Northerners who moved south during Reconstruction
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Scalawag
Definition
nickname for southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War
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KKK
Definition
AKA: Klu Klux Klan. group of White extremists that used violence to express their feelings of white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration
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Sharecropping
Definition
System (during Reconstruction) in which families worked a farm or section of land in return for a share of the crop rather than wages. Replaced plantation agriculture in south after civil war
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Crop lien system
Definition
The crop-lien system was a way for farmers to get credit before the planting season by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests
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Waving the bloody shirt
Definition
practice of politicians referencing the blood of martyrs or heroes to criticize opponents
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Liberal Party
Definition
Political party that is neither fully republican nor fully democratic. More moderate beliefs
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Civil service reform/Pendleton Act
Definition
Allowed the president to decide which federal jobs would be filled according to rules laid by a bipartisan Civil Service Commission.
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KKK Act
Definition
part of Civil Rights Act of 1871 that helped protect southern blakcs from the KKK
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Civil Rights Act of 1875
Definition
The Act guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in public accommodations
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Slaughterhouse cases
Definition
The supreme court saw the 14th amendment as protecting the "privileges or immunities" conferred by virtue of the federal United States citizenship to all individuals of all states within it, but not those privileges or immunities incident to citizenship of a state.
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election and ended Congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction.
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