Reconstruction Vocab

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Ended slavery in the U.S.

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13th Amendment

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Defined national citizenship and forbade states from restricting citizens' basic rights.

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14th Amendment

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Granted African American men the right to vote

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15th Amendment

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Group of congressmen opposing slavery and punishing the South for the Civil War.

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Radical Republicans

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Northerner who moved to the South for profit

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Carpetbaggers

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Southern Republicans supporting Reconstruction policies

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Scalawags

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Freedmen's Bureau enforced racial segregation laws in southern states after Reconstruction.

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False

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Sharecropping involved "paying" formerly enslaved people with food and housing similar to slavery.

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True

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"Corrupt bargain" between Democrats and Republicans that ended Reconstruction.

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Compromise of 1877

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Helped millions of formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War

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Freedmen's Bureau