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Reconstruction |
period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War |
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Radical Republican |
one of the Congressional Republicans who wanted to destroy the political power of slaveholders and to give African Americans citizenship and the right to vote. |
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Thaddeus Stevens |
one of the leaders of the radical republicans |
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Wade-Davis Bill |
Bill passed by Congress, and vetoed by President Lincoln, that would have given Congress control of Reconstruction |
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Andrew Johnson |
president after Lincoln's assisination |
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Freedmen's Bureau |
government agency that helped former slaves and poor whites by giving out food and clothing and by setting up schools and hospitals |
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black codes |
laws enacted in many southern states that discriminated against African Americans |
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Fourteenth Amendment |
gave African Americans citizenship |
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impeach |
legal process to formally charge the president with misconduct in office |
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Fifteenth Amendment |
banned states from denying African Americans the right to vote. |
