Chapter 18 flash cards

The

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Reconstruction

Or Rebuilding

200

Freedmen's Bureau 

A government agency to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans

300

Impeach

Or bring formal charges against

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Sharecroppers

Rented and farmed a plot of land. Planters provided seed, fertilizer, and tools in return for a share of the crop at Harvest Time

500

Separation of races

Segregation

Big

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Ten Percent Plan

Under this plan a Southern State could form a new government after 10 percent of it's voters swore an oath to the United States 

200

13th Amendment

It banned slavery throughout the nation

300

15th Amendment

It forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of race color or previous condition of servitude

400

Requiring voters to pay a fee each time they voted

Poll taxes

500

Blacks and whites were separated in schools, restaurants, theaters, train stations, street cars, playgrounds, hospitals, and cemeteries

Jim Crow Laws

Boy

100

Freedmen

Men and women who had been slaves

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Black Codes

Laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen

300

Scalawags

White Southern Republicans

400

Theses laws stated that if a voter's father or grandfather has been eligible to vote on January one 1,1867 the voter did not have to take a literacy test

Grandfather Clauses

500

The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal so long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal in quality

Plessy V. Ferguson

Flash

100

Amnesty

Or a government pardon

200

14h Amendment

It defined citizens equal protection of laws

300

Conservatives

Or white Southerners who had power before the Civil War

400

It is the period that followed after the Congress could easily override a veto

Radical Republicans

500

Used its vast natural resources to build up its own industry instead of depending on the North

New South

Cards

100

Wade Davis Bill

It required 50 percent of a state's white males to take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union, it also required states to let African Americans have the right to vote.

200

Reconstruction Act

It outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War. 

300

K. K. K Or Ku Klux Klan

worked to keep African Americans and white Republicans out of office

400

Northerners who came to the south after the war

Carpetbaggers

500

Voters had to read and explain a section of the Constitution

Literacy tests