Reconstruction Vocabulary Review

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time of rebuilding the South after the Civil War

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Reconstruction

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amendment that abolished (ended) slavery

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13th

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amendment that granted citizenship to all people born in the United States; equal protection under the law

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14th

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amendment that gave African American males the right to vote in all states

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15th

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agency that helped freedmen and gave them food, medical care, jobs, housing and schooling

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Freedmen's Bureau

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Segregation means

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separation of the races

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a system of farming where landowners gave farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for part of the crops they raised

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sharecropping

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the name given to former slaves after the passage of 13th Amendment

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freedmen

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laws that limited the rights of freedmen in the South after the Civil War

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Black Codes

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a secret group that terrorized African Americans and other minorities

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Ku Klux Klan