| A | B |
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| Abraham Lincoln | created a reconstruction plan calling for reconciliation -belived that preseration of the union was more importtationt than punishing the south |
| Robert E Lee | -urged southneners to reconcile with the northeners at the end of the world and reuite as americans -became preisendent of washington college witch is now known as washington and lee university |
| Frederick Douglass | -was a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties for all -fought for adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights |
| 13th Amendment | all former slaves were freed |
| 14th Amendment | if you were born in the usa u were an automatic citzen of the usa with equal portection |
| 15th Amendment | everyone except women got to vote |
| Black Codes | Laws passed by Southern states that took away rights of newly freed slaves |
| Plessy v Ferguson | Supreme Court case that legalized segregation..."Separate but Equal" |
| Freedman's Bureau | This was set up by Republicans to help former slaves...it gave them food and it set up schools |
| Compromise of 1877 | Repbulican Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president...troops removed from the South |
| Civil Rights Act | African Americans gained rights, but this was NOT enforced by Southern governments |
| KKK | A group of white southerners who terrorized white and black Republican voters |
| Plessy v Ferguson | Supreme Court case that established the "Separate but Equal" principle |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that segregated blacks and whites after Plessy v Ferguson |
