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Blackface/Minstrel Shows
Comedic performances of blackness by whites in exaggerated costumes
Freedmen’s Bureau
An agency to help former slaves by providing healthcare, medical supplies and establishing schools
Ku Klux Klan
Terrorized blacks and republicans in the south
Sharecropping
A person allows someone to use their land in exchange for some of the crops.
Daughters of the Confederacy
A women's organization that honors Confederate veterans. said that the South are victims. made statues and memorials of the veterans. They would make only their textbooks in schools so kids would read them and grow up to be like them.
Jim Crow
He was a white person playing an African American and the character got really popular.
Black Codes
Laws that laid out what blacks were and were not allowed to do.
Lynching
Public hangings by mobs
Civil war
A war fought between the North and South of the United States from disagreements of slavery
Convict Leasing
A system that said that Labor can be used as a punishment in prison.
tried to go around the 13th Amendment.
Almost all of the people were black
peonage
Forced Labor where a worker is forced to work to pay off a debt
Grandfather Clause
Voting rights only applied in grandfather was able to vote before 1867
13th Amendment
It abolished slavery
Porter v. Hall
Indigenous people can't have the right to vote because they don't "Have the ability to take care of themselves"
Red Summer
When white people came back from World War I and black people took the white peoples jobs and homes and white people got mad
Andrew Johnson
Lincolns VP becomes president after his assasination
Poll Tax
Pay a fee in order to register to vote.
14th Amendment
It said anyone born in the U.S. is legally considered a citizen.
Vagrancy Laws
criminalized being jobless or homeless. mainly made to target just freedmen
Birth of a nation
The first movie was shown in the white house and woodrow wilson supported it.
Presidential Reconstruction
The plan was made by Johnson.
Vetos acts that will protect freedmen
Literacy Tests
pass a literacy test in order to vote.
15th Amendment
you can't deny someone voting rights based on race, color or previous enslavement.
Radical Republicanism