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| to give full pardon to all southerners, excluding high ranking Confederate leaders and a few others |
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| rebuilding the former Confederate states and rebuilding the nation |
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| shot President Lincoln at Fords theater |
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| After Lincoln's death, took position as president |
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| Congress passed in January 1865 to abolish slavery |
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| resembled pre-Civl War slaved codes; laws limiting the freedom of former slaves |
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| Radical Republican who insisted that African Americans be given the right to vote |
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| demanded "the immediate, unconditonal, and universal enfranchisement of the blakc man in every state of the Union." |
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| distributed food and clothing, served as an employment agency, set up hospitals, and operated schools |
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| declared that everyone born in the US was a citizen with full civil rights, but did not guarantee voting rights |
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| required states to extend equal citizenship to African Americans and all people |
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| divided the Confederacy into 5 military districts |
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| lacked political experience, but was a war hero; won elction of 1868 |
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| "The right of citizens to the US to vote shall not be dinied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition to servitude |
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| northern republicans who imposed their ideas on the way of life in the south |
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| secret terrorist group to keep African Americans from voting |
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| three laws that empowered the federal government ot combat terrorism with military force and to prosecute guilty individuals |
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| severe economic depression |
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| prohibited businesses that served the public from discriminating against african americans |
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| supporters of white controlled governments |
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| Deomocrat who ran against Hayes for the 1876 election |
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| won the 1876 election due to electoral votes |
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| in return of the democrats' acceptance of Hayes as president, the Republicans agreed to withdraw the remaining federal troops from the south |
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| a farmer worked a parcel of land in return for a share of the crop, a cabin, seed, tools, and a mule. |
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| any outstanding debts would be added to the bills the following year |
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| fixed taxes imposed on every voter |
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| tests that barred those who could not read from voting |
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| laws created to enforce segregation |
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| a lawsuit brought in 1896 after African American Homer Plessy was denied a seat in a first class railway car |
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| a leading African American entrepreneur who was one of the first women in the US to become a millionaire |
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| believed that African Americans should concentrate on achieving economic independence which he saw as the key politically and social equality |
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| focused her attention on stopping the lynching of African Americans |
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