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Reconstruction
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10th Grade
12/10/2008

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13th Ammendment
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abolished slavery
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14th Ammendment
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made all people born here or naturalized citizens of the US and state they lived in
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15th Ammendment
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protected the freed man's right to vote
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14th Ammendment
Definition
assured equal protection of law to all citizens
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Abe Lincoln
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responsible for Ammendment 13
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Pacific Railroad Act
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this provided for the building of the transcontinental railroad
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Homestead Act
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this law gave free land to anyone who would live on it and build a house on it for five years
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Morcill Act
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this law gave land grants to colleges for mechanical engineering and agricultural science
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Jim Crow Act
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established segregation after Reconstruction
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Reconstruction Act
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this law divided the South into five districts each led by a major military general (1866)
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Abe Lincoln
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great emancipator
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carpetbaggers
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bejorative name given to Yankees who went South
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John Brown
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he captured the US arsenal on Harper's ferry and started a slave revolt
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Dan Sickles
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Military governer who lost a leg at Gettysburg
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James Bucnanan (bachelorre)
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the only president from PA
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Ku Klux Klan
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white supremacist organization found by ex-confederate to end Reconstruction
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Abraham Lincoln
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the arthur of the "Let me up easy" Policy for reconstruction
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Pressy v Fergeson
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This desicion established seperate but equal law for American Law (1896)
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Andrew Johnson
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impeached for Tenure of Office Act 1867
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Rutherford Hayes
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he was elected president by the compromise of 1877 and he ended reconstruction
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