Reconstruction Era

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What is a Poll Tax?

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A tax required of African Americans as a qualification for voting.

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Literacy tests were designed to...

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a way to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote

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What did the 14th Amendment do?

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All people born in the U.S.A are citizens and can't have their rights taken

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What was the 15th Amendment?

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Gave men regardless of race the right to vote

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What is the grandfather clause?

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if their grandpa voted before the civil war they were able to vote

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What was Du Bois' criticism of Booker T. Washington's work?

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He disagreed with Washington's position that African Americans should be satisfied with what they have.

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What was the Reconstruction Era?

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Getting the Confederate States back to the Union.

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The 14th and 15th Amendments, passed during Reconstruction, resulted in

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increased individual rights for African Americans

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What were black codes?

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Laws in the South made so it would limit African Americans' freedom.

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The Black Codes

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Restricted the freedoms of African Americans