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- 3. of 1877 After the disputed Presidential Election of 1876, Congress declared Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the winner, but Republicans promised to withdraw remaining troops from Southern states & no longer attempt to reshape Southern states; marked the end of Reconstruction as Democrats regained control of the South
- 4. first African American senator
- 6. A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
- 7. Any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.
- 9. Amendment Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or previous condition of servitude
- 10. officially made slavery illegal in all of the United States
- 12. 17th president of the United States, came to office after Lincoln's assassination and opposed Radical Republicans; he was impeached
- 13. War general who became president in 1869
- 14. A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of violence.
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- 1. Wilkes Booth 26 year old actor and Southern sympathizer, assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- 2. Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
- 5. Federal agency set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South
- 8. granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States
- 9. Amendment declared that all persons born in the US were citizenship, that all citizens were entitled to equal rights and their rights were protected by due process
- 11. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union