Reconstruction Era Flashcards

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13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

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Abolished slavery, granted citizenship, ensured voting rights

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th U.S. President during the Civil War

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Andrew Johnson

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17th U.S. President, succeeded Lincoln, oversaw early Reconstruction

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Radical Republicans

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Advocated for more stringent Reconstruction policies

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Freedmen's Bureau

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Assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South

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KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

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White supremacist organization using violence to intimidate African Americans

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Jim Crow Laws

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Enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States

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Sharecropping

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Farmers worked land owned by others for a share of the crop

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Reconstruction

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Period after the Civil War aimed at reuniting the nation and addressing civil rights

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Scalawags

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Southern whites who supported Reconstruction policies