Reconstruction 1865 to 1877
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- 13th Amendment
- freed the slaves, banned slavery, allows slavery in prisons
- social rights
- generally considered an obligation a society places upon itself and its citizens to ensure to all people some specified standard of living, without discrimination
- vocational training
- a type of education that trains one for a trade such as a carpenter or blacksmith; also called industrial education
- freedman
- former slave
- Plessy v Ferguson
- a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
- share cropping
- replaced slavery
- Reconstruction
- the reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War
- WEB Du Bois
- writer and educator, full political, civil and social rights, started NAACP, Fisk Univ
- Jim Crow Laws
- passed by Southerners that segregated public places- schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, hospitals, cemeteries
- discrimination
- unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group
- Booker T Washington
- equality through vocational education, social segregation, Tuskagee Institute, founed NNBL
- supreme court
- highest court in the land, decisions are federal laws
- 14th Amendment
- defines citizenship and provided for equal protection under the law to Blacks, "equal protection under the law", forbids states to deny due process of law (trial), all persons born or naturalized in the US are citzens of US and state in which they live
- constraint
- a restriction or limitation as of one's civil rights
- civil rights
- the rights of full citizenship and equality under the law
- 15th Amendment
- all male citizens could vote, can't deny because of race, color, previous condition of servitude, mentions grandfather clauses, literacy tests and poll taxes to keep black people from voting
- social separation
- dividing people by race
- racial segregation
- separation of people of different races
- grandfather clause
- voting laws do not apply to anyone who's father or grandfather could have voted before 1/1/1867 (only whites)