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a fee charged to voters before they could vote
poll taxes
This man wanted to ratify the 13th Amendment, but didn't want to give civil rights to the freedmen.
President Johnson
These are laws passed after the 13th Amendment was ratified in Southern states that restricted the rights of freed slaves
Black Codes
A separation by race or religion or other differences
segregation
This granted citizenship to all born in the US (including African Americans) and gave equal protection of the laws to all citizens.
14th Amendment
The Supreme Court case that said segregation was constiutional as long it was places were "separate but equal."
Plessy vs. Ferguson
This man wanted to bring the South back into the Union quickly and said that only 10% of the white voters had to take an oath to be readmitted back into the Union.
Abraham Lincoln
This plan was devised by Abraham Lincoln which he granted a full pardon to every southern citizen who would take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution in order to join the Union
the 10% Plan
a test that had to be passed in order to vote
literacy test
This was organized to help ex-slaves/freedmen with food, medical care, resettlement, and education
Freedmen's Bureau
This said that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude (were slaves).
15th Amendment
The man was the first African American to serve in the US Congress.
Hiram Revel
This group wanted civil rights for freedmen with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to be a priority, to use the military to divide the South, and to have some sort of consequences for the Southerners/Confederates.
The Radical Republicans (in Congress)
This is the term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South
What are carpetbaggers
a law that excused voters from the literacy tests and poll taxes if their father or grandfather were able to vote on January 1, 1867 (before 13th Amendment)
Grandfather Clause
laws designed to segregate blacks from whites (passed in the South)
Jim Crow Laws
This man assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Who were the farmers that worked for an owner/tenant who gave them what they need to equipment, but then the farmers had to give a portion of their crops to pay off the debt to the owner for the things that were given to them.
sharecroppers
This is a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a portion of the crop raised on that land
sharecropping
This group supported white supremacy (felt whites were superior) and used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights
Ku Klux Klan
constitutional guarantee that everyone is treated equally (14th Amendment)
Equal Protection Clause
This man didn't want high-ranking, wealthy Confederates/Southerners to take the oath to the USA so they could regain voting privleges.
President Johnson
This amendment abolished all slavery.
13th amendment
to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official
impeach
amnesty