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| reconstruction | the government's plan to rebuild the South after the Civil War |
| 13th amendment | the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery |
| 14th amendment | the constitutional amendment that declared all native-born or naturalized persons citizens of the U.S. (including former slaves) |
| 15th amendment | amendment to the Constitution declaring that the right to votes cannot be denied based on race, color or previous condition of servitude(former slaves) |
| radical republicans | wanted extreme, quick change and wanted to punish the South for their succession |
| moderate republicans | people who opposed great change and wanted to allow the South back into the Union without further conflict |
| Lincoln's 10% plan | a plan to allow the Southern states to re-enter the Union consisting of 2parts: a) 10% of a state's pop. had to swear their loyalty to the U.S b) each state needed to create a statement forbidding slavery in their state. |
| Wade-Davis Bill | Congress's plan for the Southern states to re-enter the union consisting of 3 parts: a) 50% of white-male voters had to swear their loyalty to the Union b) If he wanted to vote in the upcoming election, he could only do so if he never participated in the Confederacy c) The state had to ban slavery |
| John Wilkes Booth | assassin of Abraham Lincoln |
| Freedman's Bureau | a federal agency established to distribute food, clothes and fuel to the poor Southerners. It also set up schools for the freed slaves |
| Black Codes | laws passed in attempt to keep slaves working on plantations. |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th U.S. President; first president to be impeached (Clinton was the 2nd) |
| scalawags | scoundrels; white southerns who wanted to gain wealth during Reconstruction at the expense of the wealthy southern plantation owners |
| carpetbaggers | northerns who packed their "cheap suitcases" to get rich off the poor South by starting businesses and construction.. |
| Ku Klux Klan (KKK) | a secret, racist organization composed of mostly white males, that tried to limit black power through illegal and often violent actions. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | 18th President; sent troops to the South to put an end to the KKK's actions |
| Compromise of 1877 | Resolved the disputed election between Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel Tilden. Elected Hayes if he agreed to end Reconstruction in the South |
| Jim Crow | a derrogatory name for an African American |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws that separated blacks from whites such as separate bathrooms, schools, water fountains |
| segregation | separation by race |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | 1896 Supreme Court Ruling that declared segregation legal as long as the separate entities were equal. |
