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13th amendment
this was passed on april 8th toabolish slavery -
reconstruction
this was to rebuild the nation's economy and goverment after the civil war -
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lee surrenders
lee refusing to see his troops suffer any further, surrended to grant . southern troops given generous terms of surrender. -
lincoln's death
abe lincoln died on april 15,1865 he was assassinated by john wilkes booth -
" slavery
slavery was were blacks had to work for whites and they where there owners and they made them do alot of stuff -
black codes
these codes were placed for human rights for the blacks even though half of the people in the u.s were against blacks -
grandfather clause
allowed whites to get around poll taxes and literacy tests by allowing the son or grandson of a man eligible to vote in 1866 or 1867 to vote himself. (even blacks) -
sharecropping
whites allowed blacks to have some of there land if they were going to share half of everything with them. -
literacy tests
reading tests citizens had to take about constitution in oder to vote -
panic of 1873
this was a depression. south got hit and they went in to poverty -
civil war ending
the civil war ended in 1877 -
poll tax
required voters to pay a tax most african americans couldn't pay this -
plessy vs. ferguson
ruled the segregation was legal as long as african americans had acess to seprate but equal facilites -
brown vs. borad of education
the surpreme court reversed the finding the plessy vs. ferguson by stating that education facilites separated solely on the basis or race were by nature unequal and therefore, unconstitional -
jim crow laws
southerners states passed laws allowing segregation, seperation of races
