Reconstruction Vocab

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Movement of 6 million people from rural South to urban Northeast, Midwest, and West (1916-1970).

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African American Migration

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Laws by Southern states based on slave codes, restricting freedmen's rights and influencing the 14th Amendment.

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Black Codes

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Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to exploit the unstable climate.

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Carpetbaggers

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Land/business owner forces worker to repay debt with work, leading to a cycle of unpaid labor.

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Debt Peonage

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No one can be denied the right to vote based on race or color.

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Fifteenth Amendment

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Granted full citizenship to African Americans; states cannot deprive rights without due process; guarantees equal protection under the law.

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Fourteenth Amendment

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Laws in the South post-Reconstruction enforcing racial segregation.

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Jim Crow Laws

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Groups believing in white supremacy formed in the South to terrorize African Americans and enforce segregation.

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Ku Klux Klan

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A subgroup of a political party advocating punishment for the South post-Civil War and full equality for African Americans, gaining power in Congress to push through Congressional Reconstruction.

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Radical Republicans

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System of agriculture in the South with former slaves, where farmers give a portion of crops to landowners for land use.

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