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- 3. he ten percent plan, formally the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, was a United States presidential proclamation issued on December 8,
- 4. Andrew Johnson was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency as he was vice president at
- 7. a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.
- 9. A literacy test assesses a person's literacy skills: their ability to read and write. Literacy tests have been administered by various governments to immigrants.
- 11. The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until the end of
- 13. sometimes called Black Laws, were laws governing the conduct of African Americans. In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to
- 15. an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.
- 16. the era following the U.S. Civil War
- 18. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states
- 19. was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
- 20. he Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.
- 21. 18th president
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- 1. a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
- 2. a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.
- 5. is the systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.
- 6. Republican policies proposed after the election of 1866, which granted greater opportunities to freedmen and sought to punish the South for its role in the Civil War
- 8. was an important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.
- 10. a charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office.
- 12. either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their
- 14. a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affecting their previous rights, privileges, or practices.
- 17. a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
