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11 Cards in this Set
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Reconstruction
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Rebuilding the former Confederate states and reuniting the nation
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Amnesty
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An official pardon issued by the government.
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John Wilkes Booth
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Shot the President as he and his wife watch a play at the Ford's Theater in Washington.
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Andrew Jackson
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Vice President assumed the presidency. Was a Democrat.
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Thirteenth Amendment
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Congress had passed in January 1865 to abolish slavery
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Black Codes
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Law passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom of former slaves
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Thaddeus Stevens
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insisited that African Americans be given the right to vote
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Fredrick Douglas
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Born into slavery in 1817 on tobacco plantation in eastern Maryland.
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Freenmen's Bureau.
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One move made by the Republicans was to extend the life
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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The first civil rights law in the nation's history.
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Fourteenth Amendment
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passed in June 1866. The Amendment required states to extend equal citizenship to African American.
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