US History - Unit 3B
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10%(Ten
Percent) Plan
President Lincoln's plan to readmit southern
states to the Union, once 10% of the 1860
voting list agreed to pledge loyalty to the
Union.
13th
Amendment
bans slavery
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14th
Amendment
defines citizenship; equal protection clause
and due process
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15th
Amendment
prohibits national and state governments
from denying the right to vote based on race
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Abolitionist
a person that believes in putting in an end to
slavery
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Agriculture
farming
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Antebellum
a time period before a war; in reference to
U.S. History - the time period between the
American Revolution and the Civil War
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Black Codes
the laws passed in Southern states to
regulate the activities of former slaves after
the Civil War
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Carpetbagger
any of the Northern politicians or
adventurers who went to the South to take
advantage of unsettled conditions after the
Civil War
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Compromise
of 1850
proposed agreement allowing California to
enter Union as a free state, abolishing
slavery in District of Columbia and allowing
popular sovereignty to determine slavery
issue in Utah and New Mexico territories
Dred Scott v.
Sandford
the Court declared that no slave or free black
person could claim United states citizenship
Emancipation
Proclamation
declared freedom for enslaved persons only
in parts of the Confederacy not under the
control of the Union army
Freedmen's
Bureau
an office of the War Department established
to provide freed African Americans with
food, teachers, legal aid, and other
assistance; helped 40,000 African
Americans to establish their own farms in
Georgia and South Carolina
Fugative Slave
Law
the measure passed by Congress that
provided for the recovery of runaway slaves
with the assistance of federal marshalls
Grandfather
Clause
a former law in some Southern states
waiving electoral literacy requirements for
those whose grandfathers voted before the
Civil War, thus keeping the franchise for
illiterate whites.
Jim Crow
the laws that legitimized the practice of
separation of the races in Southern public
facilities. These laws were upheld by the
Supreme Court in 1896 but reversed in 1954.
KansasNebraska Act
a law that allowed voters in the newly
organized Kansas and Nebraska to choose
whether to allow slavery
Literacy Tests
the means of excluding African Americans
from voting in Southern elections by testing
their ability to read
Missouri
Compromise
agreements passed by Congress to maintain
the balance of power between slave states
and free states in 1820-1821
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Poll Tax
a tax per head on individuals as a
prerequisite for voting
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Reconstruction
the laws that put the southern states under
U.S. military control and required them to
draft new constitutions upholding the
Fourteenth Amendment
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Scalawag
a Southern white who supported the
Republicans during Reconstruction
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Secession
the formal withdrawal of a state from the
Union
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Sectionalism
a devotion to the interests of one
geographic region over the interests of the
country as a whole
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Sharecropper
a farmer loaned land, money, tools, and
seed in exchange for giving a share of the
harvest to the landowner
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Suffrage
right to vote
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Tenant Farmer
a farmer that works another person's land
as part of his or her rent payment
Wade-Davis
Bill
also known as Radical Reconstruction;
required a majority of those eligible to vote
in 1860 would have to take an ironclad
oath to support the Constitution
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