Reconstruction

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  1. 3. Act that removed voting restrictions
  2. 8. Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.
  3. 9. The 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869.
  4. 10. Was a U.S. politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1875 to 1881; of mixed race, he was the first elected black senator to serve a full term.
  5. 11. An American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War.
  6. 13. Was the 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General of the United States Army, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
  7. 15. A wing of republican party organized around a uncompromising slavery
  8. 16. Was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
  9. 19. Hiram Rhodes Revels was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a Republican politician, and college administrator.
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  1. 1. The name of three distinct past and present movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism aimed at groups or individuals whom they opposed.
  2. 2. Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  3. 4. The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65)
  4. 5. Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
  5. 6. In the United States were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War.
  6. 7. Lincoln's plan during reconstruction
  7. 12. An American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.
  8. 14. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States
  9. 17. A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
  10. 18. An United States history, scalawags were Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War.