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Vocabulary
Amendments
Racist Groups
100

Civil Rights

Equal protection and fairness under laws: equal rights.

100

13th

Made slavery illegal throughout the U.S.

100

What was the most popular racist group at the time?

The KKK

(Klu Klux Klan)

200

Reconstruction

The process of readmitting the former confederate states into the Union.

200

14th

Gave citizenship to people born or naturalized in the U.S.

200

What did racist groups try to do?

Limit and threaten African American rights by terrorizing them.

300

Segregation

Keeping people separated based on race.

300

15th

Gave African American men the right to vote.

300

Why did people who were apart of racist groups hide their identity?

Because some people had jobs in the gov't or had reputations that they know would be ruined if people knew that they were apart of racist groups.
400

Carpetbaggers

Northern Republicans who moved to the South after the war to profit off of Reconstruction.

400

What did the 13th,14th, and 15th amendment do for African Americans?

Gave them equal rights as everyone else.

500

Scalawags

The name that Southerners gave to white Southern Republicans.

500

What else did the 14th amendment do other than granting citizenship?

Gave people equal protection under laws.