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Freedmen's Bureau
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Directed by howard
helped newly freed slaves with transition to freedom by providing guidance, shelter, and building schools, etc.
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13th Amendment
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Abolished slavery
1865
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14th Amendment
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Broad definition of citizenship
overturned dred scot case decision
1868
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15th Amendment
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Prohibits denial of any (male) citizen based on race, color or previous servitude
1870
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16th Amendment
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1913
allows government to levy an income tax
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17th Amendment
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1913
direction election of senators
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18th Amendment
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Prohibition
1919
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19th Amendment
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1920
women's sufferage
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Black codes
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After the 13th amendment was passed by Johnson (1865)
was basically slavery in all but name
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"Jim Crow" Laws
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After 14th Amendment (1868)
separate but equal
challenged by plessy v. ferguson
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Carpetbaggers
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Northerners who moved to south during reconstruction
brought capital and skills
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Scalawags
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Ex confeds or southern whites who supported reconstuction
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Reconstruction Act of 1867
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Divided south into 5 military districts
states had to adopt 14th and 15th amendments to be allowed back into union
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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1882
ban placed on chinese immigration
immigrants in NE didn't receive such hard laws because north liked cheap labor
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Wage Slavery
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A situation in which a person is dependent for a livelihood on the wages earned
between slavery and wage labor
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