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| 163447575 | freedmen | people who had been slaves | |
| 163447576 | Reconstruction | the rebuilding of the South | |
| 163447577 | Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction that allowed southern states to form a new government after 10% of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the U.S. | |
| 163447578 | amnesty | A government pardon | |
| 163447579 | Wade-Davis Bill | 1864 plan for Reconstruction that required a majority of white men to swear loyalty to Union; it also denied the right to vote to anyone who had volunteered for the Confederacy | |
| 163447580 | The Freedmen's Bureau | A government agency to help former slaves | |
| 163447581 | Thirteenth Amendment | this banned slavery throughout the nation | |
| 163447582 | black codes | Laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen | |
| 163447583 | Radical Republican | Members of Congress who wanted to break the power of wealthy planters and ensure that freedmen had the right to vote | |
| 163447584 | Fourteenth Amendment | This defined citizens as all persons born or naturalized in the United States | |
| 163447585 | Radical Reconstruction | Period when Republicans, who had control in both houses of Congress, took charge of Reconstruction | |
| 163447586 | Reconstruction Act | Law that threw out state governments that refused to ratify the 14th Amendment it also required former Confederate states allow African Americans to vote; | |
| 163447587 | impeach | To bring serious charges of wrongdoing against a public official | |
| 163447588 | Fifteenth Amendment | This forbids any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race | |
| 163447589 | scalawag | White southerners who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction | |
| 163447590 | carpetbagger | Nickname for a northerner who went south after the Civil War | |
| 163447591 | Conservatives | White southerners who resisted the changes of Reconstruction | |
| 163447592 | Ku Klux Klan | Secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence | |
| 163447593 | sharecropper | Person who rents a plot of land from a planter and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop | |
| 163447594 | poll tax | Tax which requires a fee to be paid before voting | |
| 163447595 | literacy test | Test to see if a person can read and write; used to restrict voting rights | |
| 163447596 | grandfather clause | Law that excused a voter from a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on Jan 1, 1867. | |
| 163447597 | Jim Crow Laws | Laws that separated the races in public places in the South | |
| 163447598 | Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 Supreme Court Case that ruled that segregation in places was legal as long as facilities were equal | |
| 163447599 | "New South" | Description of the South in the late 1800s when efforts were made to expand the economy by building up industry. |
