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Ch 12
Reconstruction
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History
11th Grade
09/27/2011

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Pocket Veto
Definition
a veto of a bill brought about by the president's failure to sign it within ten days of the adjournment of Congress
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Radical Republicans
Definition
They called themselves "radicals" and were opposed during the war by moderates and conservative factions led by Abraham Lincoln and after the war by self-described "conservatives" (in the South) and "Liberals" (in the North). Radicals strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for Reconstruction.
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Enforcement Act of 1870
Definition
Were four acts passed from 1870 to 1871 that were meant to protect rights of all blacks following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as part of Reconstruction, which entitled freedmen and all others born in the United States to full citizenship.
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Reconstruction
Definition
A program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair the damage to the South caused by the Civil War and restore the southern states to the Union
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Pardon
Definition
An official forgiveness of a crime
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Freedman's Bureau
Definition
Created by Congress in 1865, the first major federal relief agency in the United States
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Black Codes
Definition
Laws that restricted freedmen's rights
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14th Amendment
Definition
A Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1868, to guarantee citizens equal protection under the law
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 civil rights
Definition
A citizen's personal liberties guaranteed by law, such as voting rights and equal treatment
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Impeach
Definition
To charge a public official with wrongdoing in office
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15th Amendment
Definition
A Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1870, that guaranteed voting rights to all citizens
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Carpetbagger
Definition
A negative nickname for a northern Republican who moved the the South after the Civil War
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Scalawag
Definition
A negative nickname for a white southern Republican after the Civil War
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Sharecropping
Definition
A system of farming in which a farmer tends some portion of a planter's land and receives a share of the crop at harvest time as payment
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Tenant Farming
Definition
A system of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter
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Infrastructure
Definition
The public property and services that a society uses
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Enforcement Act of 1870
Definition
Passed by Congress to ban the use of terror, force or bribery to prevent people from voting because of their race
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Solid South
Definition
Term used to describe the domination of post-Civil War politics by the Democratic Party
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Compromise of 1877
Definition
An agreement in which Democrats agreed to give Rutherford B. Hayes the victory in the presidential election of 1876 - Hayes, in return, agrees to remove the remaining federal troops from southern states
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