Reconstruction Era

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a term used to describe the South in the late 1800s when efforts were being made to expand the economy by building up industry

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"New South"

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Members of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to take power from the wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freedmen received the right to vote.

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Radical Republicans

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a white southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction

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scalawag

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a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop

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sharecropper

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separation of races

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segregation

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What required voters to pay a fee each time they voted?

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poll taxes

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Defines citizens as "all persons born or naturalized in the United States"

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14th Amendment

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What required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution?

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literacy tests

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men and women who had been freed from slavery

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freedmen

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An agreement by Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes to end Reconstruction in return for congressional Democrats accepting his inauguration as president after the disputed election of 1876.

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Compromise of 1877