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- 2. President who succeeded Abraham Lincoln, and he was also the only senator from a Confederate state that stayed loyal to the Union.
- 8. Founded as a social club for Confederate veterans in 1866.
- 10. Democrats gave this nickname to Northerners that moved to the South after the war.
- 11. States that no one can be kept from voting based upon race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- 13. One of the leaders of the Radical Republicans.
- 15. Cooke's banking firm, the nations largest dealer in government securities, went bankrupt leading to a series of financial failures known as the _________.
- 16. To formally charge the President with misconduct in office.
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- 1. Period during which the United States began to rebuild after the civil war.
- 3. This bill proposed that Congress, not the President, be in charge of Reconstruction.
- 4. Another word for discriminatory laws.
- 5. Gave a constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act.
- 6. A minority of republicans that were angered by Lincoln's Reconstruction plan.
- 7. One of the sixteen African Americans that were elected to Congress during Reconstruction.
- 9. Democrats gave this nickname to the white Southerners that joined the Republican Party.
- 12. In this system they would rent the land for money and would be able to keep all the crops.
- 14. In this system landowners divided their land and gave each worker a few acres. They would pay back in a portion of their crops