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| Leaders of the Confederacy were found to have aided John Wilkes Booth to carry out the plan to assassinate President Lincoln. |
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| President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted. |
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| President Johnson vetoed both the Freedmen’s Bureau and the Civil Rights Act of 1866. |
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| Spokesmen for the New South advocated industrial development for the South, but seldom challenged white supremacy in the process. |
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| Tenant farming increased significantly in the South in the two decades following Reconstruction |
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| Paper money not backed by specie such as gold or silver, also known as fiat money. |
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| Prohibited states from taking a person's life, liberty, or property without "due process of law" and offered the first national definition of citizenship. |
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| President whose two terms in office were disrupted by numerous scandals involving high government officials, while he remained aloof from personal financial gain. |
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| President Grant’s strategy of conciliation with Native American tribes. |
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| Laws passed specifically to regulate the activities of blacks, becoming much more common in the South during the years following the end of Reconstruction. |
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| Historian who postulated that America’s vast frontier had contributed to the development of democracy in the United States, and to a unique American character. |
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| Ran the agency which established schools and helped provide basic services for the ex-slaves following the Civil War. |
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| Secretary of War whose job the Tenure of Office Act was designed to protect. |
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| The investment firm whose collapse began the Panic of 1873. |
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| The American purchase of Alaska. |
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| Democrats restored to power in the South. |
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| Booker T. Washington's 1895 speech that outlined his basic philosophy. |
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| President that withdrew the last federal troops from the South. |
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| Political party organized by the enemies of President Grant and “Grantism.” |
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| The most numerous and loyal Republicans in the South after the Civil War. |
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| The last Indian tribe to maintain organized resistance against the whites. |
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| 1882 Congressonal response to racist pressure. |
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| Section of Oklahoma Territory opened for white settlement in April, 1889. |
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| One of the California entrepreneurs who founded the Central Pacific Railroad |
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| Last war chief of the Apache Indians to be forced onto the reservation. |
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