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- 3. famers supply own tools and rent farm land for cash
- 5. formally charge an official with misconduct in office, house of representatives has power to do this.
- 6. someone who, after the civil war, wanted to destroy the political power of former slave owners and give blacks full citizenship and the right to vote.
- 7. a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the civil war
- 10. 17th president of united states, was succeeded after Lincoln
- 11. representative for radical republicans from Pennsylvania
- 13. the discriminatory laws passed throughout the post-civil-war south which severely restricted blacks lives. Included, traveling, carrying weapons, serving on juries and testifying against or marrying whites.
- 14. amendment to us constitution in 1870 that prohibits the denial of voting to color or slavery past.
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- 1. northerner who moved to the south after the civil war
- 2. the period when the united states began to rebuild after the civil war. 1865-1877
- 4. amendment to us constitution that makes all persons born or naturalized in the us, including former slaves, citizens of the country, and guarantees equal protection laws.
- 8. system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise
- 9. bill passed in 1864 and vetoed by president Lincoln that would give congress control of reconstruction
- 12. An extremist right-wing secret society in the US, founded in the southern states after the Civil War
