B&H Reconstruction Flash Cards

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Freedmen's Bureau

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A group that helped free people find food and jobs after the Civil War.

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Freedmen

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People who were once enslaved but are now free.

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Sharecropping

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When farmers grow crops on someone else's land and share the food with the owner.

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Juneteenth

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A holiday on June 19 that celebrates freedom for enslaved people.

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Jim Crow Laws

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Rules that kept Black and white people apart and treated them unfairly.

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Reconstruction Era

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The time after the Civil War when the country tried to fix things and bring the South back.

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KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

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A group that used fear to try to keep Black people from having rights.

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Convict Leasing

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When people in jail worked for businesses, often in bad conditions.

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Impeachment

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A way to remove a president if they do something wrong.

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Andrew Johnson

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The president after Lincoln who helped during the Reconstruction Era.