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William Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.” Du Bois was born in 1868 and died in 1963 was was a leading African-American sociologist, writer and activist. He was educated at Harvard University. He earned fame for the publication of such works as Souls of Black Folk (1903), and was a founding officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and editor of its magazine. Dubois also taught at Wilberforce University and Atlanta University, and chaired the Peace Information Center. Shortly before his death, Du Bois settled in Ghana to work on the Encyclopedia Africana.

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He was born a slave on a Virginia farm in 1856 and died in 1915. He rose to become one of the most influential African-American intellectuals of the late 19th century. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Institute, a black school in Alabama devoted to training teachers and he served as an adviser to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. He is recognized for his educational advancements and attempts to promote economic self-reliance among African Americans.

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The grandfather clauses stated that" you are only allowed to vote if your grandfather voted"
Historical significance: They created this because they didnt want African American males to vote.

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Literacy test were used for african americans to say that they couldnt vote if they couldnt read. The white men would say that African American male wouldnt be able to vote if they couldnt read the name they're voting for.

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The 24th Amendment declared that there were going to be Poll Taxes.

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Jim Crow Laws was basically like segregation. The "colored" or "whites" only signs were constant reminders.  The Supreme Court established the doctrine of "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson, after a black man in New Orleans attempted to sit in a whites-only railway car.

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Another form of slavery without calling it slavery. People would work to pick cotton, goods and etc for free.
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white Southerners who cooperated politically with black freedmen and Northern newcomers.

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a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
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Divided the south into five military districts. Each district was placed under military leadership and new elections were held with voting only allowed by Congress' approved voters, which were mostly former slaves.

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The 15th amendment gave the right to let African american male the right to vote.

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The 14th amendment is the citizenship of african americans. "all people born in the United States". It denies any persons "life,liberty,or property"

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The 13th amendment is the abolishment of slavery

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U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freed slaves in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States, which attempted to change society in the former Confederacy

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In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.

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Abraham Lincoln started planning for the reconstruction of the South during the Civil War as Union soldiers occupied huge areas of the South.

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The Emancipation Proclamation was supposed to be the "freedom" of slaves, but it only applied to states in rebellion. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued twice.

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The Anaconda Plan is the name applied to an outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War.

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King Cotton is a slogan that basically means that the cotton that they were producing was bringing in the money for the south. More sharecroppers were needed because the production of cotton.

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The government was formed in 1861 by southern states that proclaimed their secession from the United States. Jefferson Davis was the president.

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The United States especially the northern states during the Civil War, which remained with the original United States government.