Reconstruction Vocabulary Flashcard Review

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A federal agency set up after the Civil War to help former slaves and poor whites obtain food, clothing, and shelter and locate missing family members.

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Freedmen's Bureau

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A labor system in which freedmen and poor whites contracted to work a plot of land for the landowner in exchange for a portion of the crop at harvest time

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Sharecropping

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A labor system in which freedmen and poor whites have the tools and supplies to farm but do not have land to farm, so they worked someone else’s land for wages or a share of the crops

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Tenant Farming

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Abraham Lincoln’s focus after the Civil War.

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Rebuilding the country

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Abolishes (ends) slavery

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13th Amendment

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Guarantees citizenship and equal rights to all citizens born in the United States.

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14th Amendment

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Guaranteed all male citizens the right to vote regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

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15th Amendment

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Secret society formed in 1866 to keep former slaves powerless, they used terror and violence to accomplish their goals

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Ku Klux Klan

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The time of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.

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Reconstruction

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Laws that limited the rights of freedmen in the South after the Civil War

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Black Codes