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Recontruction
Chapter 12 Vocabulary
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History
11th Grade
10/09/2009

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RECONSTRUCTION
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was the period during which the united states began to rebuild after the civil war (1865-1877)
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BLACK CODES
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that severely restricted African American lives on the back
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Ku Klux Klan
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founded as a social club for confederate veterans started in tennessee in 1866
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FREEDMAN'S BUREAU
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in February 1866 congress voted to continue and enlarge
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14TH AMENDMENT
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provided a constitutional basis for the civil right act
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15TH AMENDMENT
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that no one can be kept from voting because of race, color or previous condition of servitude
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IMPEACH
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the president that is to formally charge him with misconduct in office
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SCALAWAGS
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called white southerners who joined the republican party
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HIRAM REVELS
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the first african american senator
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SHARECROPPING
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landowners divided their land and gave each worker either feed African American or poor white
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TENANTFARMING
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might even rent land for cash from the planters and keep all their harvest
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REDEMPTION
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congressional reconstruction came to an end
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COMPROMISE OF 1877
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republican leaders agreed to these demands and hayes was peacefully inaugurated
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HOME RULE
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the ability to run state government with no federal intervention
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