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- 5. a U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the Sout
- 7. to charge the holder of a public office with misconduct.
- 8. an American politician who served as the 17th president of the United States
- 9. a faction within the Republican Party originating from the party's founding in 1854
- 10. a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
- 11. the first African American senator
- 12. this prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote
- 13. a period in United States history following the American Civil War
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- 1. a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction
- 2. this granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States,"
- 3. sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans
- 4. this bill created a framework for Reconstruction and the re-admittance of the Confederate states to the Union
- 6. a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop