| A | B |
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| 13th Amendment | officially banned/outlawed slavery |
| 14th Amendment | citizens are born with certain rights: life, liberty, pursuit of happiness - equal protection - applied only to males - regardless of color |
| 15th Amendment | gave all men the right to vote - regardless of race, color, or religion |
| Amnesty Act | gave all Southern males the right to vote after the Civil War |
| Bill of Rights | the 1st "10" Amendments |
| Black Codes | Southern Laws - still restricted African-Americans rights - curfews, vagrancy laws, land restrictions |
| burning crosses | what groups did to intimidate/scare African Americans |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners rushing in to the South to make a profit off of/ from Southerners |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | outlawed discrimination against African - Americans - not followed |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | protects African - American civil rights |
| Compromise of 1877 | had to do with Presidential Election late 19th century - Hayes vs Tilden - dispute over southern votes - Hayes becomes President - US troops pulled from South |
| Force Act of 1870 | it allowed people to vote withOUT paying bribes |
| Freedman's Bureau | created by US Congress to help African Americans in late 19th century |
| impeach | to try & remove a President from office |
| Jim Crow Laws | restricted the rights of African Americans |
| Johnson Plan | another term for Presidential Reconstruction - said southerners didn't have to swear allegiance to nation / govt. in Washington DC |
| KKK | a group that hated African-Americans - threatened & hurt them |
| Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction | known as the 10% Plan - forgiving - but 10% of the people from each state had to take an oath of allegiance to the Union BEFORE State readmitted |
| Military Reconstruction Act of 1866 | occured during Reconstruction - divided South in to military districts |
| NAACP | organization which looks after African American Rights |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | NAACP stands for this term/words |
| Negro Colleges | higher places of education established to help AFrican Americans get ahead |
| New South | Reconstruction of the South - change: society & economy |
| Niagara Falls | WEB DuBois - wanted African-Americans to get a liberal arts education - regular 4 year college |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | said "separate but equal" is OK |
| poll tax | African Americans had to pay $$$ in order to vote |
| property tax | a person who had to own property in order to vote |
| scalawags | white Southerners who supported the Union/North during the Civil War |
| sharecropper | land is owned by someone else; you work it & get to keep some of the harvest - people often fined/lose money if they were late for work; |
| Solid South | southerners who voted Democratic - a HUGE block of votes |
| tenant farmer | paid $ to rent land; kept all profits; but had to buy their own machines - result: they often went broke |
| Tenure of Office Act of 1867 | limited the power of the President to hire & fire people |
| Universal Negro Improvement Association | Marcus Garvey's movement |
| vocational education | learning a trade |
| Wade Davis Act | US Congress's Plan for Reconstruction - required former Confederate soldiers to take an oath to the Union & NEVER go against it again |
| Tuskegee Institute | founded by Booker T. Washington - vocational education for African Americans |
| Jim Crow | a set of laws to restrict African Americans was/were named after a song & dance show |
| Presidential Reconstruction | another term for President Andrew Johnson's plan for rebuilding the South & returning it to the Union |
| to station | to put in place; to put troops into an area |
