Reconstruction:In the history of the United States, the term Reconstruction Era has two senses: the first covers the complete history of the entire country from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War; the second sense focuses on the transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877, as directed by Congress, with the reconstruction of state and society
Impeach:call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice 13th Amendment:The 13th Amendment held accountable for free all slaves from their masters. 14th Amendment: The 14th Ammendment allowed all Blacks or African Americans to become citizens of the United States. 15th Amendment: The 15th Ammendment allowed all Black or African Americans to vote for a President or a man in office that he would like to vote for. Jim Crow laws:The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation state and local laws enacted after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States that continued in force until 1965 mandating de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern U.S. states (of the former Confederacy), starting in 1890 with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. |
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Facts: 1.Extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Knights of the White Camellia start popping up throughout the South. 2.State’s rights and the return of order to a society torn by war are your main concern. 3. Quote:restoring your farm and family to their rightful place in society.” Carpetbagger Facts: 1.a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections. 2.The term carpetbagger was a pejorative term referring to the carpet bags (a fashionable form of luggage at the time) which many of these newcomers carried. 3.Together with Republicans, carpetbaggers were said to have politically manipulated and controlled former Confederate states for varying periods for their own financial and power gains Quote: Freedman Facts: 1.A freedman is a former slave who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves became freedmen either by manumission (granted freedom by their owner) or emancipation (granted freedom as part of a larger group) 2.Rome differed from Greek city-states in allowing freed slaves to become citizens. The act of freeing a slave was called manumissio, from manus, "hand" (in the sense of holding or possessing something), and missio, the act of releasing 3.As a social class, freed slaves were liberti, though later Latin texts used the terms libertus and libertini interchangeably Quote: Women Facts: 1.A woman is a female human 2.The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. 3. Quote: |