Rebuilding of something that has been damaged or destroyed. It was the remaking of the Southern United States after they lost their war of rebellion and slavery was officially ended and is marked by three constitutional amendments aimed at expanding the civil rights of African Americans.
Civil War and Reconstruction

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Michael Beguin
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Reanimation
Reconstruction
Civil War
Dred Scott Decision
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Creator of the Presidential Reconstruction plan that was lenient to former Confederate leaders, allowing them to to reclaim power and implement black codes in the South. Impeached and nearly removed from the Office of President.
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
John Johnson
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As reconstruction ended and white southerners regained power, they worked to strip African Americans of their voting and civil rights. One way was to require a fee to be paid before voting. Many poor African Americans could not use their limited means to vote, giving more power to white southerners.
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Voter Fee Act
Sharecropping
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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As reconstruction ended and white southerners regained power, they worked to strip African Americans of their voting and civil rights. One way was to require voters to demonstrate that they could read and write in order to vote. This impacted many African Americans that had been denied educational opportunities during the period of slavery.
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Fifteenth Amendment
Segregation
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Secret society that resorted to violence and terror in order to maintain power; they used verbal threats and violence to intimidate African Americans and prevent them from voting.
al Qaeda
Radical Republicans
Carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
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System that started as a positive opportunity for African Americans but ended in a situation just like slavery. A white plantation owner rented plots of land to African Americans, loaned them seed and supplies, and the African American worked the land hoping to make enough money to pay off the loan and earn a profit. Instead, they usually ended up in debt and working for free.
Jim Crow Laws
Segregation
Sharecropping
Poll Tax
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A principle or rule that is established by the verdict of a court case; that ruling or decision is then used to determine the outcome of all similar court cases. The landmark decision in Plessy v. Ferguson makes segregation legal in the United States.
Dred Scott Decision
Legal Precedent
Dissenting Opinion
Judicial Activism
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