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Reconstruction
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Social Studies
8th Grade
10/10/2012

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black codes
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laws passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans (p558)
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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(1896) U.S. Supreme Court case that established the "seperate-but-equal" doctrine for public facilities (p569)
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KKK
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Ku Klux Klan
a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights (p566)
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poll taxes
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a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote (p568)
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primary source
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historical documents, written accounts by a firsthand witness, or objects that have survived from the past (pH3)
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secondary source
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accounts of past events created by people some time after the events have happened(pH3)
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Why did Johnson and congress disagree?
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13th amendment
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(1865) a constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery (p554)
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14th amendment
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(1866) a constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians (p561)
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15th amendment
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(1870) a constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote (p563)
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segregation
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the forced seperation of people of different races in public places (p568)
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Jim Crow laws
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A law that enforced segregation in the southern states (p568)
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agriculture
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growing crops or raising animals
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carpetbaggers
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Northern born republicans who moved south after the war (p564)
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scalawags
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White southern republicans (p564)
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Freedmen's Bureau
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an agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the south (p556)
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impeaching the president
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the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against the president (562)
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