Ss 912 A 2.1 Answer Key

Question: African-American migration

Answer: The movement of a large number of African Americans from the Southern states to Northern or Western states in search of opportunity and freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Question: Anaconda Plan

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Question: Black Codes

Answer: A series of laws that severely restricted the rights, freedoms and movement of African-Americans in Southern states after the Civil War. Also known as Jim Crow laws.

Question: carpetbaggers

Answer: a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction, either through political or economic opportunities. Often a person perceived as an unscrupulous opportunist.

Question: Compromise of 1850

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Question: Dawes Act of 1887

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Question: debt peonage

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Question: Dred Scott Decision

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Question: Emancipation Proclamation

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Question: Fifteenth Amendment

Answer: 1870.”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.” One of three Reconstruction Amendments.