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AMH 2020 Book Vocab
black codes - correct answer ✔laws some southern states designed to
maintain white supremacy by keeping freed people
impoverished and in debt


carpetbagger - correct answer ✔a term used for northerners working in the
South during Reconstruction; it implied that
these were opportunists who came south for economic or political gain


compromise of 1877 - correct answer ✔the agreement between Republicans
and Democrats, after the contested election of
1876, in which Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the presidency in exchange
for withdrawing the last of
the federal troops from the South


crop-lien system - correct answer ✔a loan system in which store owners
extended credit to farmers for the purchase of
goods in exchange for a portion of their future crops


Freedman's bureau - correct answer ✔the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen,
and Abandoned Lands, which was created in
1865 to ease blacks' transition from slavery to freedom


Ironclad oath - correct answer ✔an oath that the Wade-Davis Bill required a
majority of voters and government officials in
Confederate states to take; it involved swearing that they had never supported
the Confederacy

,KKK - correct answer ✔a white vigilante organization that engaged in
terroristic violence with the aim of
stopping Reconstruction


radical republicans - correct answer ✔northern Republicans who contested
Lincoln's treatment of Confederate states and
proposed harsher punishments


reconstruction - correct answer ✔the twelve-year period after the Civil War in
which the rebel Southern states were
integrated back into the Union


redeemers - correct answer ✔a term used for southern whites committed to
rolling back the gains of Reconstruction


scalawags - correct answer ✔a pejorative term used for southern whites who
supported Reconstruction


sharecropping - correct answer ✔a crop-lien system in which people paid
rent on land they farmed (but did not own) with
the crops they grew


ten percent plan - correct answer ✔Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, which
required only 10 percent of the 1860 voters in
Confederate states to take an oath of allegiance to the Union


union leagues - correct answer ✔fraternal groups loyal to the Union and the
Republican Party that became political and

, civic centers for blacks in former Confederate states


manifest destiny - correct answer ✔implies divine encouragement for
territorial expansion. Justified in American's minds their right and duty to
govern any other groups they encountered during their expansion


homestead act - correct answer ✔allowed any head of household to acquire
160 acres for only a nominal filing fee


pacific railroad act - correct answer ✔commissioned the Union Pacific
Railroad to build new tracks west from Omaha, Nebraska while the Central
Pacific Railroad moved east from Sacramento, CA


Exodusters - correct answer ✔African Americans that migrated westward to
fled the racism of the south and search economic opportunities, referencing
the biblical flight from Egypt


Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - correct answer ✔Ended war with Mexico in
1848. Mexicans retained their right to their language, religion, culture, and
property. As for citizenship, they can choose: Declare their intent to live in the
US but remain a Mexican citizen, become a US citizen under the constitution,
or leave for Mexico


sod houses - correct answer ✔first houses built by western settlers made by
mud and sod with thatch roofs


John Deere - correct answer ✔steel-faced plow 1838


James Oliver - correct answer ✔improvements in 1860s is what transformed
homestead life called the chilled plow

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