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reconstruction vocab

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Andrew Johnson   Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869  
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Freedmen’s Bureau   The Freedmen's Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.  
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Reconstruction   The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 to 1877 in American history. The term has two applications: the first applies to the complete history of the entire country from 1865 to 1877  
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Black Codes   The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 in the United States after the American Civil War with the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom.  
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Radical   The term "Radical" during the late 18th-century and early 19th-century identified proponents of democratic reform, in what subsequently became the parliamentary Radical Movement.  
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Fourteenth Amendment   The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.  
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Republicans   The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party  
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Impeach   The Constitution defines impeachment at the federal level and limits impeachment to "The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States" who may be impeached and removed only for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes .  
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Thaddeus Stevens   Thaddeus Stevens was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s.  
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Fifteenth Amendment   The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".  
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Wade-Davis Bill   A more stringent plan was proposed by Senator Benjamin F. Wade and Representative Henry Winter Davis in February 1864. The Wade-Davis Bill required that 50 percent.  
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Scalawag   In United States history, scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War.  
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Carpetbagger   In the history of the United States, a carpetbagger was any person from the Northern United States who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and was perceived to be exploiting the local populace.  
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Hiram Revels   Hiram Rhodes Revels was a Republican U.S. Senator, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War  
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Sharecropping   Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.  
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Tenant Farming   A tenant farmer is one who resides on land owned by a landlord. Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital .  
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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)   The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States  
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Samuel J. Tilden   Samuel Jones Tilden was the 25th Governor of New York and the Democratic candidate for president in the disputed election of 1876.  
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Panic of 1873   The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered a depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1879, and even longer in some countries  
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Compromise of 1877   The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election.  
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Redemption   Redemption is an essential concept in many religions, including Judaism and Christianity. The English word "redemption" means 'repurchase' or 'buy back  
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Home rule   Home rule is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens. It is thus the power of a constituent part of a state to exercise such of the state's powers of governance  
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Rutherford B. Hayes   Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881, having served also as an American congressman and governor of Ohio.  
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