USII.2ADEF 5CHI Test Flashcards

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What is the 13th Amendment?

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Abolished slavery.

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What is the 14th Amendment?

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U.S. Citizenship and equal protection under the law.

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What is the 15th Amendment?

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Voting rights for men only.

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What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

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A government agency set up during Reconstruction to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, jobs, fair treatment, and education.

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What were Black Codes?

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Laws intended to limit the freedoms of newly freed African Americans, passed by Southern states to gain low paying labor for plantations.

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What was the role of sharecroppers?

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Sharecroppers worked the land they 'rented' from former slave masters and grew crops to 'pay' the former slave masters, often without making actual money.

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What was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?

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A racist terrorist group formed to keep freed blacks from their civil rights and freedoms, especially voting rights.

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What marked the end of Reconstruction?

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The election of 1876 with Rutherford B. Hayes and the removal of federal troops from the South.

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What was the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson?

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It made 'separate, but equal' public facilities legal in the U.S.

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What were 'Jim Crow' laws?

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Legal forms of discrimination and racial segregation.