Reconstruction Flashcards

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What did the 13th Amendment do?

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made slavery illegal

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What did the 14th Amendment do?

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made former slaves citizens and gave them rights

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What did the 15th Amendment do?

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gave black men the right to vote

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What was segregation?

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the forced separation of races

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What was Reconstruction?

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the period of time after the Civil War

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The US government created what organization to help former slaves and poor whites?

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Freedman's Bureau

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These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working. Once arrested they would be forcibly assigned to work for white landowners.

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Black Codes

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Reconstruction was the process of

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rebuilding the South after the Civil War

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Northerners who migrated to the mostly destroyed post-war south to make large profits and/or help freedmen were known as

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Carpetbaggers

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Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from the South in order to win the Presidency in the Election of 1876.

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ended Reconstruction