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Civil War Unit 2
Term | Definition |
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Freedman's Bureau | An agency that helped freed slaves transition into society after the Civil War. Provided employment, education, housing, and food. |
Sharecropping | A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked on land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. |
Reconstruction Plans | Consists of radical reform, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, The Stipulation of the Radical Republicans' Reconstruction Act, Black Codes |
Tenant Farming | System of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter |
Henry McNeal Turner | a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church also an active politician and Reconstruction-era state legislator from Macon. In addition to,an outspoken advocate of back-to-Africa emigration |
Black Legislators | |
Klu Klux Klan | Radical group of racist, white, southern, Protestants who opposed the freeing of slaves, but supported white supremacy and terrorized African American communities through lynchings, beatings, and other acts of violence. |
13th Amendment | Abolished Slavery |
14th Admendment | Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws |
15th Admendment | Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude, gave suffrage to African American men |
Back to Africa Emigration Movement | encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors |
The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction | stated that all Southerners could be pardoned and reinstated as U.S. citizens if they took an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the Union and pledged to abide by emancipation |
tipulation of the Radical Republicans' Reconstruction Acts | states that states re-entering the Union must ratify the 14th amendment and other admendments |
Black Codes | designed to restrict freed blacks’ activity and ensure their availability as a labor force now that slavery had been abolished |
Civil Rights Act of 1866 | gave the federal government the right to intervene (take over) any time civil rights were taken away from the newly freedmen. |