Reconstruction Vocabulary

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Compromise of 1877

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Agreement made after the president election of 1876 that allowed Hayes to become president as long as federal troops were removed from the South, ended Reconstruction.

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14th amendment

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Gave citizenship to all persons born or "naturalized" in the United States and provides those citizens equal protection under U.S laws.

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13th Amendment

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Abolished slavery in the United States.

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15th amendment

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Established that the right of citizens of the United States to vote should not be denied by race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

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Freedmen's Bureau

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Organization established in 1865 by Congress to help former black enslaved people and poor whites in the South.

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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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A secret society started by a group of Confederate Veterans that became an unofficial military force focused on reversing the federal government’s progressive Reconstruction Era-activities.

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Radical Republicans

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Group of representatives that were very extreme with their views and believed the government should be tougher on the South for leaving the Union.

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Moderates

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People that describe themselves as not extreme or excessive in their political views

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Scalawag

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A term used to ridicule a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction.

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Carpetbagger

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A northerner who moved to the south during the Reconstruction era to try to take advantage of the unsettled conditions