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Lincoln Assassination
2nd set for final
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Undergraduate 1
12/04/2012

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Lincoln Assassination
Definition
Rocks the Political Establishment
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John Wilkes Booth
Definition
Lincoln's Assassin
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10% Plan
Definition
If a certain amount of a population of a confederate state swears loyalty to the Union, it has the right to form a state government and return to function as a state in the Union.
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13th Amendment
Definition
abolishes slavery
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Black Codes
Definition
laws aimed at controlling the movements and labor of newly freed slaves
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Sharecropping
Definition
grow crops on someone's land and in return for the use of their land, you give the landlord a percentage of the profits from the crops.
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Andrew Johnson
Definition
former democrat from Tennessee. Completely unsuited for his new job as President.
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Radical Republicans
Definition
want to punish the south. 
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Thaddeus Stevens
Definition
committed believer in radical equality. most important leader of the radical republicans.
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Reconstruction Acts
Definition
divide the south into 5 military districts and place south under marshal law
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14th Amendment 
Definition
grants citizenship. civil rights amendment.
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15th Amendment
Definition
right to vote cannot be taken away because of race
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carpetbaggers
Definition
come to the south to make money off the south
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Scalawags
Definition
southerner who cooperates with the Union occupation of the south
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Freedman's Bureau
Definition
a government institution set up to help newly freed slaves. Assisted slaves in feeding, housing, and voting but does not redistribute land.
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40 acres and a mule 
Definition

a provisional land redistributional program that gace slaves 40 acres of confiscated plantation land and farm equipment to make a new life for themselves.

never became a reality.

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