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Chapter 3 Note Cards. 1. 14 th Amendment Declared all persons born or naturalized in US as citizens All citizens entitled to “equal protection of the.

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Page 1: Chapter 3 Note Cards. 1. 14 th Amendment Declared all persons born or naturalized in US as citizens All citizens entitled to “equal protection of the.

Chapter 3

Note Cards

Page 2: Chapter 3 Note Cards. 1. 14 th Amendment Declared all persons born or naturalized in US as citizens All citizens entitled to “equal protection of the.

1. 14th Amendment

• Declared all persons born or naturalized in US as citizens

• All citizens entitled to “equal protection of the laws”

• States that denied African Americans the right to vote were punished

• Denied all claims for Confederate Debt

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2. 15th Amendment

• States that no citizen can be denied the right to vote because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

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3. Reconstruction

• Program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the South caused by the Civil War and restore the southern states to the Union.

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4. Freedmen’s Bureau

• Radical Republican plan that received Presidential support.

• Its goal was to provide food, clothing, healthcare, and education for both black and white refugees in the South.

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5. Black Codes

• Laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers.

• Allowed blacks to only work in certain occupations, prohibited African American’s from owning land, and set up laws forcing blacks to work.

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6. Wade-Davis Bill

• Passed in 1864 it required that a majority of a state’s prewar voters swear loyalty to the Union before the process of restoration could begin.

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7. Andrew Johnson

• President Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President, who took over as President following Lincoln’s assassination.

• The only Southern Senator who refused to join the Confederacy, when his home state of Tennessee seceded in 1861. He was against equality for the former slaves.

• He was impeached by Radical Republicans, but was not removed from office.

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8. Radical Republican’s

• Led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, these individuals in congress insisted that the Confederates had committed crimes by enslaving African Americans and by entangling the nation in war.

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9. Scalawag

• A Negative term for Southern whites who supported the Republican Party after the Civil War.

• These were white men who had been locked out of pre-Civil War politics by their wealthier neighbors.

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10. Carpetbagger

• Is a negative term for a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War, seeking to improve their economic or political situations, or help make a better life for freedmen.

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11. Sharecropping

• A system that embraced much of the South’s black and white poor.

• Under the System, a landowner dictated the crop and provided the individual with a place to live, as well as seeds and tools, in return for a share of the harvested crop.

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12. Tenant Farming

• The most independent arrangement for both the farmer and landowner.

• The individual pays rent to the landowner and then was free to choose and manage his own crop- and free to choose where he would live.

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13. Ku Klux Klan

• A white supremacy group that was formed in Tennessee in 1866.

• Clothed in white hoods, and mounted on horse back, theses individuals would roam the countryside terrorizing African Americans.

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14. Compromise of 1877

• Was an agreement that allowed Rutherford B. Hayes won the 1876 presidential election and in exchange agreed to remove the remaining federal troops from the South.

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15. Rutherford B. Hayes

• An Ohio republican who ran for presidential election in 1876.

• Was a respected Union general during the war, and while governor of Ohio developed a reputation of being honest and reform minded.

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16. Enforcement Acts

• Made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote.

• Also known as the KKK Acts

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17. Integration

• An idea suggested by radical Republicans in which, black and white students would attend the same schools.

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18. Segregation

• An Idea that many white southerners who lived in the South supported.

• The forced separation, often times by race.• Placed a huge strain on resources for

developing schools, because two schools would have to be built rather than just one.

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19. Redeemers

• Politicians who aimed to repair the South in the eyes of congress.

• Their strategy was described as being designed to reclaim the South from northern dominance.

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20. Civil Rights Act of 1866

• This was Congress’s attempt to overturn the Black Codes.

• Created federal guarantees of the civil rights and superseded and state laws that limited them, but was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.