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Andrew Jackson Impeached in 1868. Fourteenth Amendment Gave full citizenship and equal protection to all people born in the United States.

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1 Andrew Jackson Impeached in 1868

2 Fourteenth Amendment Gave full citizenship and equal protection to all people born in the United States

3 Thirteenth Amendment Outlawed slavery in the United States

4 Redeemers Leaders in the South who supported economic development and opposed Northern interference

5 Blanche K. Bruce African American senator from Mississippi

6 Ku Klux Klan Used violence and terrorism to deny rights to freed men and women

7 Amnesty Act Pardoned most former Confederates and allowed them to vote and hold office

8 Freedmen’s Bureau Government agency that helped African Americans adjust to freedom

9 Reconstruction The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War

10 Public Schools Created by Reconstruction governments

11 Hiram Revels African American man elected to the Senate from Mississippi

12 Tennessee First to rejoin the Union

13 Ten Percent Plan Plan proposed by Lincoln for accepting the South back into the Union

14 Fifteenth Amendment African Americans men who won the right to vote

15 Jim Crow Laws Required African Americans and whites to remain separate in all public places

16 Scalawags Term for Southerners who supported the Republicans

17 Black Codes Laws passed in the South designed to control freed men and women

18 Compromise of 1877 Republicans promised to withdraw troops from Southern states

19 Radical Reconstruction Period when Radical Republicans in Congress directed Reconstruction

20 Abraham Lincoln His assassination changed the course of Reconstruction


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