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American History
Reconstruction
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Undergraduate 1
09/25/2008

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Andrew Jackson
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Radical Republicans
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Opposed Lincoln's plan; lead by Thaddeus Stevens; did not want to be nice to the south; thought that southerners violated the constitution ad committed treason; thought that Lincoln's plan was too easy; their views clashed with president Johnsons; impeached Johnson but he survived; Ulsseyes Grant was president and radical reconstruction went into place from 1867-1877
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Thaddeus Stevens
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Lead the radical republican plan/party
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Freedman's Bureau
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Republican nomination for the election 1876
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Samuel Tilden
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Democratic nomination for the election 1876
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Compromise if 1877
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The republican wins and but the government must end the military prescience in the south, put southerners in the cabinet positions, and turn over some government jobs to southern democrats
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The New South
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the south needed to change; industrialize, and the whites need to regain their supremacy in the southern society
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Henry Grady
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Editor of a southern newspaper. editor of the atlanta constitution; supported the idea of the southern yankee (believed that the south needed to change to be more like the north and industrialize)
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Ku Klux Klan
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White supremacy blacks to gain control and keep the blacks under their control
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Crop Lien System (Sharecropping)
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re enslaved the blacks because they could not make enough profits to bring themselves out of the poverty that they were in; blacks were bound to the land
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Jim Crows Laws
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Aimed to create blacks as second hand citizens
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