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- 2. the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869.
- 4. the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877
- 9. an American politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War
- 10. this bill created a framework for Reconstruction and the re-admittance of the Confederate states to the Union
- 12. were laws governing the conduct of African Americans
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- 1. from the founding of the Republican Party in 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877
- 3. granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War
- 5. opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, who were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain.
- 6. a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
- 7. Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War
- 8. An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief
- 11. the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct
