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Reconstruction & Civil Rights

NYS Regents US History

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Abolished slavery
To get rid of
All people born in the US are citizens with equal rights
Right to vote for all male citizens
13th Amendment, South never really left the union, forgiveness
Similar to Lincoln's plan offering forgiveness but also gave amnesty to Confederate Leaders
Historical period marked by military occupation, Constitutional changes and Presidential Impeachment
Congressmen who wanted full equality for freedmen and disagreed with President Johnson's Plan
Voting barriers for African Americans, limited the effectiveness of the 15th Amendment
Created segregation in the South
Attempted to provide political and legal rights for Freedmen and created a Consitutional basis for the Civil Rights Movement
A form of Agricuture that limited the freedom of African Americans by keeping them on the plantation and dependent on their former masters
Due to the Election of Rutherford B Hayes in 1877 the Federal troops were removed from the south
Regulations that limited the freedom of African Americans
Formerly enslaved persons (African Americans) after the Civil War
provided for legal segration based on race if "seperate but equal" facilities were available
African American leader who advocated vocational training as way of economic opportunity and gradual equality for African Americans
African Americans should achieve immediate equality by obtaining college education and challenging segregation in court
Orgainzation created by WEB DuBois to provide lawyers for African Americans whose civil rights were violated
Vocation training school created by Booker T Washington in order to improve the economic standing of African Americans
Period from 1900-1930 where African Americans left sharecropping in the south to obtain factory jobs in nothern urban areas
1st group of black students who were able to attend an all white school because President Eisenhower used the military to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision
Executive order by President Harry Truman to integrate the Armed Forces after WWII
Official beginning of the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. becomes a national celebrity
Based on writings of Saint Augustine and actions of Gandhi, citizens used non-violence to peacfully break unjust laws
An example of civil disobedience used to force the desegrgation of lunch counters
reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decison, declaring that "seperate but equal is inherently unequal" and legally ended segregation
Passed after Martin Luther King's March on Washington it made it a crime to discriminate based on race or gender
Made it a crime to create barriers or restrictions to voting
Peaceful actions used to end barriers of African American voting rights

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