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| The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War. |
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| Helped African Americans transition to freedom |
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| to bring charges against an official; the House of Representatives bring charges against the President, the Senate holds the hearing |
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| the right to vote cannot based on skin color or previous servitude |
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| Southerners who supported Republican policy throughout Reconstruction |
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| refuse to give African Americans work |
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| A way that some Southerners made life difficult for freed African Americans |
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| an important step to a better life |
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| crops that are grown in order to make money; helped South repay its war debt |
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| a tax that was paid when someone in the South wanted to vote; used to keep the poor and African Americans in the South from voting |
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| separation of people based on race |
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| laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers |
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| Northerners who supported the Republicans and moved South during Reconstruction |
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| a secret society who used violence and even death to keep African Americans from advancing in society |
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| all persons born in the US are citizens |
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| 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments have in common |
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| all furthered the rights of African Americans |
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| southerners had to deal with farms and cities that had been destroyed |
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