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- 3. a process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct.
- 4. period in United States history following the American Civil War
- 6. a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land
- 8. a bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government
- 9. prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- 10. a U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South
- 11. an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator.
- 12. a faction within the Republican Party originating from the party's founding in 1854—some six years before the Civil War
- 13. an American politician who served as the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869.
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- 1. Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans.
- 2. a largely historical pejorative used by Southerners to describe allegedly opportunistic or disruptive Northerners who came to the Southern states
- 5. white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
- 7. Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.