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What is the 15th Amendment?
Amendment giving the right to vote to African Americans while protecting their right to vote as well
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What is a Carpetbagger?
A northerner who moved south during reconstruction
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Why were southerners against reconstruction?
Many believed they were getting punished for the civil war and reconstruction started to give power to african americans in the south.
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What is a Poll Tax?
A tax you have to pay in order to vote
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What is Reconstruction?
The era after the civil war where the south is being rebuilt.
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What is the 14th Amendment?
Gave citizenship to all former slaves who were born in the United States
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What did Radicals require Southern States to put in their constitution?
states had to ratify the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments in their constitutions.
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Sharecropping is what and how did it affect African American’s in the South?
A form of farm work that where you paid the land owner to work the land. Many people compared this to slavery in the south because after farming the land sharecroppers would have no money left.
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Why did President Johnson and Congress not get along?
Both believed that reconstruction should go in a different direction.
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What is a literacy test?
A test you have to take in order to vote.
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What did the amnesty act do?
An act that pardoned all former confederate leaders and allowed them to hold public office.
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What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
10% of voters took an oath of loyalty, New state constitution had to ban slavery, offered amnesty to all white southerners who were willing to swear loyalty to the Union.
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Why did Republicans begin to lose political power near the end of reconstruction?
Republicans began to lose political power because of corruption with in the government.
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What are the black codes and why were the implemented?
Laws that control freed men and women. These laws allowed African Americans to be taken advantage of.
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What is a Scalawag?
A southerner who supported republicans or african american rights
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What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Helped African Americans who were former slaves find food, cloths, jobs and education.
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What is Johnson's plan for reconstruction?
Johnson wanted to grant amnesty to most southerners after they swore loyalty and he opposed equal rights for African Americans.
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How did the white southerners try and stop African Americans from voting, and how did the affect whites in the south?
African Americans voting rights were limited through the Poll Tax and Literacy Tests. This also stopped the poor and uneducated from voting in elections.
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Why was the Grandfather Clause enacted and what did it do?
If your father or grandfather voted before reconstruction then you had the right to vote and not take the literacy test.
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What does it mean if a President is impeached?
He is formally charged with a crime
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What is the Civil Rights act of 1866 and how did it affect the South?
It gave the freedman's bureau power to arrest anyone who threatened african american rights. This caused the south to abide by northern laws dealing with african americans and did not allow them to deny them rights.
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What was the Radicals plan for reconstruction?
Radicals wanted to punish the south by forcing them to swear loyalty, abolish slavery, only whites who had not fought in the war could vote
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The Ku Klux Klan was a secret society that was formed during reconstruction. What did they represent and do during reconstruction?
An organization that attempted to use fear and violence to deny rights to freed African Americans. This organization terrorized African Americans, Scalawags and carpetbaggers. This group was responsible for thousands of killings.
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Tell me everything that happened during the lincoln assassination
John Wilkes Booth shot lincoln in the back of the head during a play.
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what are Jim Crow Laws and how did they affect the South?
Laws that segregated the African Americans and the Whites of the South. Separate but equal is ok.