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- 7. A_________ was appointed to a powerful cabinet position.
- 8. Made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen's right to vote.
- 11. This clause gives a person the right to vote if they could prove their grandfather had voted prior to the Civil War
- 13. Guaranteed equality under the law to all citizens.
- 15. Most tenant farming was an ___________ farming arrangement.
- 16. In the South, wealth was defined by...
- 18. A farmer rented land from a land owner.
- 19. The troops that were withdrawn from the South.
- 23. Plessy v Ferguson(1896)Supreme Court decided that “separate but _______" facilities were legal.
- 27. Many families moved to_______ for men to find factory work
- 28. Schools were expensive to set up, in large part because of...
- 31. The President who took office after Lincoln.
- 32. Became an important component of Reconstruction education.
- 33. Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 Divided the South into______ military districts.
- 35. A traveler who arrives in a new region with only a satchel of possessions, & who attempts to profit from or gain control over his new surroundings
- 36. More land = more...
- 37. Lincoln wanted this to happen to the US after the Civil War.
- 38. To charge with wrongdoing, call for an investigation.
- 40. Southern states were guaranteed federal subsidies to build railroads and...
- 41. Laws that restricted African Americans rights in the South.
- 43. The number of freed slaves that were left without homes or jobs.
- 44. Received 51% of the votes, a recount was demanded.
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- 1. Same as sharecropping, except the worker decided which crops to plant.
- 2. The landowner gave seeds, tools, & housing to workers. In return, they harvested crops to turn over to the landowner.
- 3. Booker T. Born a slave & argued that people need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
- 4. State laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers
- 5. This Amendment banned slavery.
- 6. For the first time in the U.S., African Americans could get...
- 9. A northerner with a history of fighting corruption & won by 1 electoral vote.
- 10. Forbid any state from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- 12. There were_______ key stipulations of the The Compromise of 1877.
- 14. Freed slaves were reunited with...
- 17. Ida B., A notable woman who brought attention to the issue of lynching.
- 20. W.E.B, graduated Harvard with a PhD & demanded full and immediate equality
- 21. The public killing of an individual who has not received any due process.
- 22. Only around 30,000 African Americans in the South owned land compared with 4 _______ others who did not.
- 24. A person had to prove they could read and write to vote.
- 25. States voters took a loyalty oath, State constitutions had to abolish slavery, & Provide education.
- 26. The 16th President of the United States.
- 29. A hate group that would terrorize African Americans.
- 30. This act in 1866 guarantees of civil rights, would supercede any state laws.
- 34. This Bureau was established to aid African Americans & give them basic necessities.
- 37. The historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems
- 39. Southern whites that were in favor of reconstruction policies and rights for African Americans.
- 42. Required voters to pay a tax to vote.