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What is a pocket veto?
An indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session.
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What did Ida B. Wells challenge?
Segregation on transportation.
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Why were people for the Black Codes?
Was to protect freedmen and society from the results of the freedmen’s “laziness and ignorance”.
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What was the Lincoln Plan?
Lincoln's plan to reintegrate the Confederate states back into the Union, granting presidential pardons to all Southerners (except political leaders) who took an oath of future allegiance to the Union.
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What was the majority of the Black Codes for?
Limit the freedom of African Americans.
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What is the Radical Republicans?
A member of the Republican Party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks.
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What was film called that came out during the Reconstruction Era?
The Birth of a Nation.
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Why were people against the Black Codes?
The South’s attempt to keep African Americans enslaved.
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What did Lincoln do to the "Lincoln Plan"?
Pocket veto.
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What is racial segregation?
The systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.
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What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
First United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. It was mainly intended, in the wake of the American Civil War, to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent born in or brought to the United States.
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During the film how was African Americans portrayed?
Lazy, scary, rapists.
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How many people from the North were lost?
110,000 deaths.
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The Radical Republican wanted to control what part of the Union?
North & South.
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If someone was caught sleeping with the opposite race, what was the fine?
$500.00 or 12 month in prison.
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What was the 15th Amendment?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Who came up with the 15th Amendment?
Fredrick Douglas.
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Since blacks were perceived as "child-like", they didn't have to the right to what?
Vote.
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What percent of white males had to take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the union?
50%
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What state came up with the cohabitation law?
Florida.
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What is a debt peonage?
A system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work.
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Who was coincidence of the Black Codes?
Ku Klux Klan
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Who said this, "Free from the individual master, but a slave to society."
Fredrick Douglas.
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Who did the Radical Republicans want revenge on?
Those who caused the war.
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Did whites and black have to go to separate schools?
Yes.
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