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| 585152221 | Alexander Stephens | He was the vice-president of the Confederacy until 1865 when it was defeated and destroyed by the Union. Like the other leaders of the Confederacy, he was under indictment for treason. | 1 | |
| 585152222 | Exodusters | the African Americans migrating to the Great Plains state (ie: Kansas & Oklahoma) in 1879 to escape conditions in the South | 2 | |
| 585152223 | Radical Republicans | These were a small group of people in 1865 who supported black suffrage. They were led by Senator Charles Sumner and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. They supported the abolition of slavery and a demanding reconstruction policy during the war and after. | 3 | |
| 585152224 | Civil Rights Act | This secured the rights of freedmen., it gave citizenship to African- Americans | 4 | |
| 585152225 | Ku Klux Klan | a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. | 5 | |
| 585152226 | Reconstruction Act | It divided the South into 5 military districts, each commanded by a union general and policed by Union soldiers. It also required that states wishing to be re-admitted into the Union had to ratify the 14th Amendment, and that states' constitutions had to allow former adult male slaves to vote. | 6 | |
| 585152227 | Thaddeus Stevens | Man behind the 14th Amendment, which ends slavery. Stevens and President Johnson were absolutely opposed to each other. Known as a Radical Republican | 7 | |
| 585152228 | Wade-Davis Bill | an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill thinking it was too harsh. | 8 | |
| 585152229 | Black Codes | Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves | 9 | |
| 585152230 | The 14th Amendment | granted citizenship to all persons borm or naturalized in the US; banned states from denying any person life, liberty, or property without due process of law; and banned states from denying any person equal protection under the laws | 10 | |
| 585152231 | Scalawags | Term used to describe Southern white Republicans who had opposed secession. | 11 | |
| 585152232 | Force Acts | These acts were passed in 1870 and 1871. They were created to put a stop to the torture and harassment of blacks by whites, especially by hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. These acts gave power to the government to use its forces to physically end the problems. | 12 | |
| 585152233 | Freedmen's Bureau | 1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs | 13 | |
| 585152234 | The 10% Plan | state could reenter the union when 10% of the 1860 voters declared allegiance to the union; state legislature would have to rewrite the state constitution and abolish slavery | 14 | |
| 585152235 | ShareCropping | a system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. | 15 | |
| 585152236 | The 15th Amendment | gave African American men the right to vote | 16 | |
| 585152237 | Carpetbaggers | A derogatory term applied to Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to take advantage of opportunities to advance their own fortunes by buying up land from desperate Southerners and by manipulating new black voters to obtain lucrative government contracts. | 17 |
