13,14 & 15th Amendment Flash Cards

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13th Amendment

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Abolished Slavery

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14th Amendment

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All US Citizens must be treated equally under the law

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15th Amendment

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African American Males have the right to vote

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Black Codes

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Laws that applied to African Americans, passed to restrict their freedoms

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Sharecropping

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System meant to keep African Americans poor. They lived on plantations and rented their house on the plantation, planting crops and receiving a portion of the money from sold crops.

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Freedmen's Bureau

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Created to help African Americans get a job, shelter, and food after being freed by the 13th Amendment.

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Jim Crow Laws

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Segregation laws separating blacks and whites.

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Segregation

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Separation of races.

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Poll Taxes

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Fee that had to be paid to vote.

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Literacy Tests

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Tests that had to be passed in order to vote.