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| 9872628128 | Radical Reconstruction | Reconstruction strategy that was based on severely punishing South for causing war |  | 0 |
| 9872628129 | Black Codes | Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War |  | 1 |
| 9872628130 | Military Reconstruction Act | 1867; divided the South into five districts and placed them under military rule; required Southern States to ratify the 14th amendment; guaranteed freedmen the right to vote in convention to write new state constitutions |  | 2 |
| 9872628131 | Reconstruction Amendments | 13th: abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, 14th: secured the rights of former slaves after reconstruction, 15th: prohibits each government in the United States to prevent a citizen from voting based on their race |  | 3 |
| 9872628132 | Freedmen's Bureau | 1865. help former black slaves after civil war Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War |  | 4 |
| 9872628133 | Compromise of 1877 | Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river | 5 | |
| 9872628134 | KKK | Stands for Ku Klux Klan and started right after the Civil War in 1866. The Southern establishment took charge by passing discriminatory laws known as the black codes. Gives whites almost unlimited power. They masked themselves and burned black churches, schools, and terrorized black people. They are anti-black and anti-Semitic. | 6 | |
| 9872628135 | carpetbagger | A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states |  | 7 |
| 9872628136 | scalawag | A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners |  | 8 |
| 9872628137 | sharecropper | A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops. |  | 9 |
| 9872628138 | Manifest Destiny | A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific. | 10 | |
| 9872628139 | Brigham Young | second leader of the Mormon religion who led them to Utah due to persecution. | 11 | |
| 9872628140 | Mexican-American War | US defeated Mexico; gained the Mexican Cession War fought over possession of Texas, which was claimed by both Mexico and the United States; the settlement ending this war gave the United States the northern part of the Texas territory and the territories of New Mexico and California. | 12 | |
| 9872628141 | Gadsden Purchase | the purchasing of land from Mexico that completed the continental United States It provided the land needed to build the transcontinental railroad.$ 10 Million | 13 | |
| 9872628142 | Louisiana Purchase | 1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson, this doubled the size of the US. | 14 | |
| 9872628143 | Joseph Smith | founder of the mormon or Latter-day saints church | 15 | |
| 9872628144 | Trail of tears | In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. | 16 | |
| 9872628145 | Andrew Jackson | -Nicknamed "old hickory" -President of the common man. As president he opposed the Bank of US, did not allow individual states to nullify federal laws, was responsible for the Indian Removal Act, the "Trail of Tears". Created Spoils System. | 17 | |
| 9872628146 | Thomas Jefferson | President who doubled the side of the country through the Louisiana Purchase. | 18 |
