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Ch. 17 Review
This is a review for the information in Chapter 17.
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Social Studies
8th Grade
05/06/2013

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Reconstruction
Definition
The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
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Freedmen's Bureau
Definition
Helped African Americans transition to freedom
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impeach
Definition
to bring charges against an official; the House of Representatives bring charges against the President, the Senate holds the hearing
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15th Amendment
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the right to vote cannot based on skin color or previous servitude
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scalawags
Definition
Southerners who supported Republican policy throughout Reconstruction
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refuse to give African Americans work
Definition
A way that some Southerners made life difficult for freed African Americans
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education
Definition
an important step to a better life
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cash crops
Definition
crops that are grown in order to make money; helped South repay its war debt
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a poll tax
Definition
a tax that was paid when someone in the South wanted to vote; used to keep the poor and African Americans in the South from voting
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segregation
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separation of people based on race
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black codes
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laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers
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carpetbaggers
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Northerners who supported the Republicans and moved South during Reconstruction
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Ku Klux Klan
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a secret society who used violence and even death to keep African Americans from advancing in society
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13th Amendment
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ended slavery
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14th Amendment
Definition
all persons born in the US are citizens
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13th, 14th and 15th Amendments have in common
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all furthered the rights of African Americans
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South after the War
Definition
southerners had to deal with farms and cities that had been destroyed
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