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Klu Klux Klan
Its a movement with extreme violence to get there goal of racial segregation and white sepremacty. There were more than 40 different klans. The klan remains the one with the gretest number of local organaizations around the country. -
13th amendment
It was about all slaves would be free in those states. It only applied to all states besides Delaware, Kentucky, matyland, and Missouri. On December 1865 was when it was officaly passed. -
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Lincolns Assassination
Lincoln got assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. He got shot at a play in Fords Theatre in Washington D.C. It happened after General Robert E. Lee surrenedered his massive army. -
The Freedmens Bureau
All relief and educational activites relating to rufugees and freedmen. Which also includes custody of the confistacted lands or property in confederate states. They were recorded by the Bureau Headquarters. -
The Black Codes
The black codes were made after the civil war. The code wouldnt allow people to vote unless there fater or grandfather voted before them. And bathrooms and schools were seperated from blacks to whites. -
Civil Rights of 1866
The act let poeple have ful citizenship to African Americans. Also, the act gave the federal government the power to intervene their rights. The law aslo overturned the black codes. -
The Grandfather Clause
This clause helped the whites more than the blacks. If you didnt pass the literacy test than you cant vote. Unless you have a father or grandfather that voted before you voted than you can vote -
The Radical Republicans
Republicans thought of Lincolns plan too frogiving. So they thought of a more extreme plan and were called the Radical Republicans. They declared the Southern institution "must be relaid or broken up." The Radical Republicans controlled the Congress. -
The 14th amendment
All born o rnaturalized in the United States are subjected citizens of the United States. No state has the right to make or enforce the law. No other person can deny any person because they have equal protection of the laws. -
The 15th amendment
It allowed African Americans to vote. If they had the right of citiszen ship of the United States. It can not be denied by th eUnited States or by any other state. -
The Jim Crow Laws
From North Dakota to texas and from Delaware to California, many other states could enforce legal punishments to people for associationg with the opposite color. The Laws tried to separate whites and blacks. They couldnt get married, have business together, or public instustution between blacks and whites. -
Election of 1876
Republicans preferred a new runner for president. The Republicans nominated Rutherfor B. Hayes. To look over the election results they had to form groups called comisstions to look over them. The group had 7 Republicans, 7 democrates, and 1 Independent. But the Independent resighned and the Republicans took his place. -
Reconstruction act of 1867
They called it the creation of the government in the 10 Southern states. The 10 had not ratified the 14th Amendment. The act had 10 states and put them into 5 military districts. The act also aloud African Americans the right to vote in state elections. -
Compromise of 1877
Republicans and Southern Demacrates met in secret to work out an agreement. When they made the compromise it let some south have a new government. Republicans agreed to withdraw. -
The Poll Tax
The poll r=tax was to see if you were able to vote. You need to take a literacy test and other you have to know how to read. That effected the African Americans because they didnt know how to read.
