Reconstruction

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  1. 4. Confederate states could be readmitted to the Union when 10 percent of its state's voters swore allegiance to the union.
  2. 5. the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress.
  3. 7. an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist formerly enslaved people, freed from slavery by emancipation, in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.
  4. 8. granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
  5. 11. Hayes was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881.
  6. 12. a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that followed the Civil War.
  7. 13. declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude.
  8. 15. a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body.
  9. 16. The action of reconstructing
  10. 20. the right to vote in public, political elections, and referendums.
  11. 21. white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
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  1. 1. abolished slavery.
  2. 2. guaranteed African-American men the right to vote.
  3. 3. a violent terrorist organization to restore white supremacy.
  4. 6. restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
  5. 9. a Southern Democrat, became president with the assassination of Lincoln.
  6. 10. affirmed the equality of all men before the law and prohibited racial discrimination in public places and facilities such as restaurants and public transportation.
  7. 14. an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S.
  8. 17. is a sizeable historic term used by Southerners to describe opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War.
  9. 18. election.
  10. 19. a bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government proposed for the Reconstruction of the South.