Module 1 Reconstruction Era Key Terms

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Reconstruction

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1865-1877, post-Civil War, southern states, freed slaves

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Freedmen's Bureau

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1865, aid for former enslaved persons, food, medical, employment, education

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Republicans

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Lincoln's party, led Reconstruction

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Impeach

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Formally charge with wrongdoing, presidents

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Sharecropping

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Landowner rents land, sharecropper owes crop percentage, kept African Americans impoverished

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Ku Klux Klan

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Secret society, opposed freedmen's rights, violence against African Americans

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Black Codes

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Laws to control freedmen, limit voting rights

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Carpetbagger

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Northerners in South post-Civil War, Republican leaders

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13th Amendment (1865)

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Abolished slavery in the US

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14th Amendment (1868)

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Citizenship to all born/naturalized in US, equal protection under law