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Chapter 4 Review

Chapter 4 Review Book

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Reconstruction The period after the Civil War to rebuild Southern states, restore the Union and extend rights to African Americans
Radical Republicans group of Republicans in Congress who wanted to protect the rights of people freed from slavery in the South and keep rich Southern planters and former Confederates from regaining political power
Thirteenth Amendment Banned Slavery
Fourteenth Amendment Granted Citizenship to former slaves and black men. Guaranteed equal protection under the law
Fifteenth Amendment Granted black men the right to vote.
Compromise of 1877 Resulted in the end of Reconstruction and the rolling back of rights of African Americans in the South
Black Codes laws passed by Southern states after the civil war to control the actions and limit the rights of African Americans
Ku Klux Klan terrorist organization first formed in the South during Reconstruction to ensure white supremacy over blacks. Worked to keep blacks from voting, and to keep segregation in place.
Poll Taxes A tax that must be paid in order to vote. Was designed to prevent blacks from voting in the South. Eventually outlawed by the 24th Amendment
Literacy Tests a test of a voter's ability to read and and write and interpret the Constitution. Was designed to prevent blacks from voting.
Grandfather Clauses laws passed in the south that said that people who had the right to vote on January 1, 1867 and their descendants could vote. Was to ensure whites could vote and prevent blacks from voting.
Segregation separation of the races in public places. Think: Jim Crow
Jim Crow Laws laws in the Southern States in the 19th and 20th centuries that mandated and enforces racial segregation.
Andrew Johnson opposed radical Reconstruction. Was impeached (but not removed from office).
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Upheld Louisiana segregation laws. Justified segregation by saying it was legal if it was "separate but equal".
Women's Rights Convention 1848 - Seneca Falls New York. The first Women's Rights Convention in the United States organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Others. Called for equality and voting rights for women.
Suffrage The right to vote
Nineteenth Amendment Granted women the right to vote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women's rights crusader. Organized Seneca Falls Convention.
Susan B Anthony Active in the movement for women's suffrage and also involved in the abolition movement and the temperance movement.
Carrie Chapman Catt One of the presidents of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Promoted a grass roots campaign for a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women's suffrage.
Transcontinental Railroad railroad extending from coast to coast. Much completed by immigrant labor (particularly Chinese immigrants in the West)
Homestead Act Provided free or cheap land to people who promised to work the land for 5 years.
Pacific Railway Act of 1862 giving railroad companies land around railroad and subsidies to promote the production of the transcontinental railroad.
Dawes Act Proposed breaking up Native American tribal lands and giving land to individual Native Americans as individual farmers.
Carlisle Indian School Goal of the school was forced assimilation. Had to give up tribal traditions and dress.
Forced Assimilation process by which a group of people is required to take on another language, dress and culture of another group of people
Manifest Destiny Belief that it was the US mission to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Nativist immigration law that drastically cut Chinese immigration to the United States
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