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The period of rebuilding the South and accepting Southern States back in the Union
Reconstruction
Civil War Amendments
1 - Abolished slavery
2 - Guaranteed citizenship to African Americans
3 - Gave African Americans the Right to vote
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Election in which Ruthford Hayes and Samuel Tilden went against each other, had a commission to decide which candidates should get the disputed amount
Election of 1876
First African Americans to serve in Congress
Hiram Revels & Joseph Rainey
A three-day race riot in Memphis, Tennessee, in early May 1866. It caused deaths of 46 African Americans and 2 whites. Some 75 people were wounded and 103 buildings were burned—including 4 churches and 8 schools.
Memphis Riots
system of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop
Sharecropping
a tax a person must pay in order to vote
Poll Tax
What two ways did the politicians prevent African Americans from voting
Poll Tax and Illiteracy Test
First State rejoin the Union after the Civil War
Tennessee
White Northerners that went to the South looking to take advantage of the South's condition and misfortune. It also resembled the name of cheap suitcases.
Carpet Baggers
a device that allowed persons to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began
Grandfather Clauses
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EMBARGO
Actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilks Booth
Name given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South
Scalawags
putting to death by the illegal action of a mob
Lynching
17th President; Impeached; Abraham Lincoln's Vice President; Southerner that supported the Union
Andrew Johnson
When a person over the age of 15 can't read nor write
Illiterate
the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.
Disenfranchisement