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U.S. History II
Reconstruction 1865-1877
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03/02/2005

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The Fourteenth Amendment
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guaranteed citizenship to African-Americans born in the United States.
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The official reason for President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial was that
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he violated the Tenure of Office Act
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The famous Supreme Court decision that overturned the doctrine of "separate but equal" was
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Brown v. the Board of Educators of Topeka, Kansas
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The first persident to face an impeachment trial in the Senate was
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Andrew Johnson
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Booker T. Washington founded a famous school for African-Americans caled
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Tuskegee Institute
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The Supreme Court case of the 1890's that legalized "separate but equal" was
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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The Reconstruction period ended with the
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Compromise of 1877
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Congressional Reconstruction
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divided the South into five military districts
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The 10 Percent Plan of Reconstruction was favored most by
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Abraham Lincoln
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Military districts in the South were established in 1867 by
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Congressional Reconstruction
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The "black codes"
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restricted the opportunities of newly freed African-Americans
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Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plan for the South
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reflected his support for the values of the South
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A major scandal of the Grant administration involved a railroad construction company called
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Credit Mobilier
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As presiden, U.S. Grant
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presided over an administration riddled with corruption
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The Freedmen's Bureau propsed to
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- give forty acres and a mule to all poor free men
- provide food, clothing, and shelter to all poor free men.
- establish school and hospitals in the South
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