Reconstruction

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This is the name of the period of time the followed the end of the Civil War.

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Reconstruction Era

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This organization gave food, clothing, medicine, and other supplies to freed slaves. It built thousands of schools.

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Freedmen's Bureau

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Landowners allowed farmers to use their fields in exchange for a share of the crop they grew, this was known as _____________

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sharecropping

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The main goal of these laws were to keep whites and African Americans separate in public places.

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Black Codes

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This is the term used when people are treated differently because of the color of their skin.

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discrimination

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This amendment abolished (ended) slavery in the whole country.

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13th Amendment

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The ____________ Amendment grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States. This meant that all African Americans that were enslaved were now American citizens.

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14th

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The ______________ Amendment gave all African American MEN the right to vote. It was illegal to deny African American men the right to vote.

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15th

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Sharecropping was like a new form of slavery, because farmers were always ________________.

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in debt to the landowners

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Presidents Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction offered a general pardon to Southerners who took the oath of loyalty to the United States and accepted the Union’s proclamation concerning

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Slavery