| Term | Definition |
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grant |
president that was after andrew johnson |
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hayes |
president after grant |
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thirteenth amendment |
freed all slaves |
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fourteenth amendment |
gave blacks citizenship |
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fifteenth amendment |
gave blacks ability to vote |
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reconstruction act |
the following the civil war |
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tenure of office act |
made it illegal to remove any presidential appointments approved by the senate unless the senate approves |
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sharecropping |
where people pay to use other peoples land |
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ku klux klan |
group to frighten blacks and whites sympathetic to black interest in order to keep blacks away from the polls |
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william seward |
johnsons talented secretary of state |
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freedman |
slaves no longer |
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freedmans bureau |
first ever relief agency |
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scalawag |
white southerners who supported radical reconstruction |
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carpetbagger |
northerners who came south to assist in radical reconstruction and brought there luggage in pieces of carpets |
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black codes |
blacks got to sue, be sued, marry[own race], testify in court |
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amnesty |
to offer a group pardon |
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thaddeus stevens |
led radical republicans |
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edwin stanton |
linconlns holdover secretary of war that refused to leave after johnson removed him from office |
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south north |
blank needed more help than blank |
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radical reconstruction |
disagreed with the 10% plan and thought the south was being to kindly |