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13 Cards in this Set
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Thirteenth Amendment
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Outlaws “involuntary servitude,” slavery.
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Requires states to provide equal protection and due process of the laws, while also defining citizenship and addressing post-Civil War slave-based property disputes.
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Fifteenth Amendment
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Guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race.
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Radical Republicans
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Loose faction of American politicians within the Republican party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Their main demand was harsh policies toward slavery and the Confederacy during the war, and toward ex-Confederates after the war, as well as support for equal rights for Freedmen (the newly freed slaves).
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Wade-Davis Bill
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Congressional alternative to Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan requiring 50% of prewar voters to pledge their loyalty and demanded black equality; Lincoln exercised the pocket veto.
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Iron clad oath
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Barred from voting under the new plan were former Confederate office holders and those who had taken an oath to support the Confederacy.
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Tenure of Office Act
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Limited the president's appointment powers.
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Black Codes
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Codes regulating blacks.
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Carpetbagger
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Northerners who decided to stay in the South during Reconstruction and help and be helped.
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Scalawag
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Supporters of Reconstruction.
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Compromise of 1877
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Secured government subsidization of the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
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Ex parte Milligan
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A United States Supreme Court case that ruled suspension of Habeas Corpus when civilian courts are still operating as unconstitutional.
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Sharecropping
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A tenant farmer who pays a share of his crop as rent for his land; not unlike feudalism which was based on the ownership of land and the obligations of the tenant to lord.
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