Civil War & Reconstruction

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  1. 3. amendment (1865) to the Constitution of the United States that formally abolished slavery
  2. 5. was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among U.S. Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ending the Reconstruction Era
  3. 6. removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the Southerners who participated in the Civil War
  4. 7. Loyalty to the interests of your own region rather than the interests of the whole nation
  5. 8. criminal codes that protected African-Americans’ right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws; the laws also allowed the federal government to intervene when states did not act to protect these rights.
  6. 9. the process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War, which took place from 1865–77.
  7. 10. restored the United States as a unified nation: by 1877, all of the former Confederate states had drafted new constitutions, acknowledged the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and pledged their loyalty to the U.S. government.
  8. 11. an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education
  9. 12. restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War
  10. 13. guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
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  1. 1. Reconstruction plan by President Johnson that allowed former Confederates who pledged loyalty to the Union received amnesty and pardon; all of their property was restored, the highest officials in the Confederacy had to apply to Johnson in person for pardon States could be restored fully into the Union after they wrote new constitutions that accepted the abolition of slavery, repudiated secession, and canceled the Confederate debt.
  2. 2. states that anyone born in the United States is a citizen and has the rights of a citizen, guarantees "due process" of law, and "equal protection” of the laws to all citizens.
  3. 4. was an order by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in 10 states that were in rebellion against the Union in 1863 (it did not apply to the slaves in the border states)