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Black Codes

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Reconstruction
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Rebuild southern states physically and mentally.
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Black Codes
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Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
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Sharecropping
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A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
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Cash crop
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Crop grown to be sold
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Poll Tax
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A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote.
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Literacy Test
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A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote
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Segregation
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Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
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Peculiar institution
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Another term for slavery; The owning of human beings existed in a country that practiced liberty.
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How many slaves were given freedom after the union victory?
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4 million
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What were the new laws passed by new southern state legislatures directed toward African Americans?
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Black codes
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What terror group was introduced during Reconstruction?
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Ku Klux Klan
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If Southern states swore loyalty to the Union and paid off war debt who could run their government?
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The southern governments themselves
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Describe what the black codes were.
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Black codes were rules to discriminate black people
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List three restrictions placed on black citizens due to the black codes.
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they could not be out after dark , could not carry a gun ,not in the military
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Speculate about how these laws were enforced.
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black codes were Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves