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Reconstruction
By Coach Cavallin

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3. This Amendment gave suffrage to all no matter race or background.
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4. 15th

5. This amendment gave equal rights and protection under the law.
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6. 14th

7. This amendment made slavery illegal in the United States
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8. 13th

9. These were used to circumvent the 15th Amendment which allowed freed slaves to vote
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10. Black Codes

11. This method of farming was used to keep African Americans bound to the land, even when the 13th amendment freed them
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12. Sharecropping

13. Under this plan, the terms for rejoining the union would be more difficult.
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14. Congressional Reconstruction

15. This group of congressmen believed the government needed to take a greater role in Reconstruction.
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16. Radical Republicans

17. This agency was created after the Civil War to provide aid and legal help to freed slaves.
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18. Freedmen’s Bureau

19. Wanted to offer southerners amnesty (an official pardon) for supporting the Confederacy. To receive amnesty, southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the U.S. and accept a ban on slavery.
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20. Lincoln’s Plan

21. Once 10% of voters in each state made these pledges, the state would be readmitted to the U.S. This became known as his
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22. Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan

23. When charges of wrongdoing against a public official are filed
When charges of wrongdoing against a public official are filed. (High crimes and misdemeanors)
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24. Impeachment

25. Forced separation of races in public places is
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26. Segregation

27. A way for landowners to keep labor costs low after the end of slavery.
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28. Sharecropping

29. A northerner who came to the South during reconstruction to take advantage of the destroyed economy and infrastructure.
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30. Carpetbagger

31. US Supreme Court case affirming the practice of Separate but Equal.
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US Supreme Court case affirming the practice of Separate but Equal.
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32. Plessy v Fergusson

33. President who was assassinated at the beginning of Reconstruction
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34. Abraham Lincoln

35. After Lincoln’s assassination, he became the president.
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36. Andrew Johnson

37. A former Union General, he was elected President in 1868
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38. Ulysses S. Grant

39. In a secret deal, he agreed to remove troops from the south and end Reconstruction if he was declared President.
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40. Rutherford B. Hayes

41. This Constitution was created at the convention held after Democrats regained control of the Texas Legislature after Reconstruction
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42. Constitution of 1876

43. Group started to terrorize free blacks in the South in 1866, founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest, a secret society.
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44. Ku Klux Klan

45. Southern states created a series of laws to segregate public space
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46. Jim Crow Laws

47. the process of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the southern states without slavery following the Civil War.
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48. Reconstruction

49. This was the year Reconstruction ended
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50. 1877

51. He appointed a governor for every state
established a system for setting up new state governments in the south.
He appointed a governor for every state
Voters elected new state officials and representatives to U.S. congress in each state
Each new state government was required to declare that secession was illegal
Each southern state had to refuse to pay Confederate debts
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52. Johnson’s Plan