Reconstruction

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Laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War that aimed to restrict the rights and freedoms of formerly enslaved people

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Black Codes

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Granted African American men the right to vote.

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15th Amendment

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A fee that people had to pay in order to vote.

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Poll tax

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Laws made in southern states that enforced segregation and racial discrimination in all aspects of daily life.

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Jim Crow laws

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Term used to describe Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War during the Reconstruction period

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Carpetbaggers

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Granted citizenship to all people born in the United States, including formerly enslaved individuals.

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14th Amendment

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System in the south that allowed poor farmers, often former enslaved people, to work on land owned by someone else.

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Sharecropping

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Requirement used, mainly in the South, to determine whether a person could read or write before they could vote.

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Literacy test

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Ended the disputed 1876 presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden. Hayes became president in exchange for withdrawing federal troops from the South.

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Compromise of 1877

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Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.

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13th Amendment