Reconstruction Vocab

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Authorized public police to return escaped slaves to the South

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Fugitive Slave Law

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U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a slave in a free state wasn't entitled to freedom; slaves are property.

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Dred Scott Case

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Laws by Southern states to counter the 13th Amendment, restricting African-Americans' rights post-slavery.

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Black Codes

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White southerners who cooperated with Reconstruction

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Scalawag

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National agency to educate ex-slaves in the South

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Freedmen's Bureau

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Supreme Court case determining separate but equal facilities constitutional

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Farming for freed slaves in the South; small land, seed, tools from landlord who decided planting; landlord took half harvest.

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Sharecropping

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Laws by southern states enforcing racial segregation

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Jim Crow Laws

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Ended slavery in America

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13th Amendment

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Equal protection and citizenship for African-Americans

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14th Amendment