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- 2. Laws that were passed across the South in response to the Civil Rights Act Of 1866, restricting blacks’ freedoms.
- 4. first African American elected to the House of Representatives and the second to serve in the United States Congress during Reconstruction.
- 9. Former governor and senator from Tennessee who became president after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
- 12. a government agency that operated during the period of Reconstruction. It was officially titled the Bureau of Refugees
- 14. A nickname for northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War.
- 15. A well-known stage actor and fanatic supporter of the South who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865
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- 1. Secretary of war under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
- 3. American lawyer, politician, and statesman, who served as the 16th president of the United States
- 5. Union general and Civil War hero who went on to defeat Horatio Seymour in the presidential election of 1868.
- 6. first black senator to serve a full term in the United States Congress.
- 7. amendment ratified in 1870, that gave all American men the right to vote, regardless of race or wealth.
- 8. major African-American abolitionist, reformer, and writer who escaped slavery himself
- 10. The period from 1867–1877 when Radical Republicans controlled the House of Representatives and the Senate
- 11. amendment, drafted by Radical Republicans in 1866 and ratified in 1868, that ensured that the liberties guaranteed to blacks in the Civil Rights Act Of 1866 could not be taken away.
- 13. landowners leased individual plots of land on plantations to white and black Sharecroppers