Reconstruction Era Vocabulary

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Compromise of 1877

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an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election

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Sharecropping

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The new form of slavery where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop

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Ulysses S. Grant

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the commanding general for the union army in Civil War from 1861-1865 & 18th president of the U.S.

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Freedmen

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an emancipated slave

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scalawags

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white Southerners who supported Reconstruction

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carpetbaggers

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Northerners who went south to help with Reconstruction

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13th Amendment

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ended slavery

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14th Amendment

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gave Black Americans citizenship and civil rights

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15th Amendment

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stated that race could not be used to deny the right to vote

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Robert E. Lee

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a Confederate general during the Civil War