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8thGrA.HistoryCh.17
8th Grade Am. History Chapter 17
Question | Answer |
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Reconstruction | the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union |
Ten Percent Plan | offered southerners amnesty or official pardon, for all the illegal acts supporting the rebellion |
Thirteenth Amendment | made slavery illegal throughout the U.S. |
Freedmen's Bureau | agency providing relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the South |
Black Codes | laws that limit the freedom of African Americans |
Radical Republicans | wanted federal government to force change in the South |
Civil Rights Act of 1866 | provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans |
Reconstruction Acts | laws that divided the South into five districts |
impeachment | process used by the legislature to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official |
Fifteenth Amendment | gave African American men the right to vote |
Ku Klux Klan | secret society that opposed civil rights for African Americans |
poll tax | special tax people had to pay before they could vote |
segregation | forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places |
Jim Crow laws | laws that enforced segregation |