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- 5. a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
- 8. a period in American history following the American Civil War; lasting from 1865 to 1877 and marked a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States.
- 10. Republican Reconstruction policies would solidify white Southerners’ loyalty to the Democratic Party for many decades to come.
- 11. During the American Civil War, the Union, also known as the North, governed by the U.S. federal government led by President Abraham Lincoln.
- 12. an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist people emancipated from slavery in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education.
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- 1. Transfer of hundreds of pieces of property from Confederate owners to Unionist, including freedmen.
- 2. The Republicans during the reconstruction era in the South represented a coalition of Black people (who made up most Republican voters in the region) along with carpetbaggers, as white Republicans
- 3. A radical republican faction led by Daniel Richards and Liberty Billings who emphasized rights for blacks at the expense of native whites. of radical republicans
- 4. The legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral (having two branches), the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- 6. an organized body having the authority to make laws for a political unit
- 7. Unrecognized breakaway state that fought against the United States of America during the American Civil War.
- 9. an emancipated slave.