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12 Cards in this Set
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Radical Republican
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congressman who favored using federal power to rebuild the South and promote African-American rights
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Reconstruction
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period from 1865 tp 1877 in which the U.S. government attempted to rebuild Southern society and governments
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Freedmen's Bureau
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federal agency set up to help former enslaved people
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Andrew Johnson
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Democrat who became president after Lincoln was assassinated
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black codes
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laws that limited the freedom of former enslaved people
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Fourteenth Amendment
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constitutional amendment that made all people born in the U.S. (including former slaves) citizens
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scalawag
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white Southerner who supported Radical Reconstruction
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carpetbagger
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Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to participate in Reconstruction
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amnesty
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official pardon
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civil rights
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rights granted to all citizens
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impeach
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to formally accuse the president of misconduct in office
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veto
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to prevent from becoming law
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