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| official forgiveness of a crime |
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| to charge a governement official with wrongdoing in office |
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| personal liberties guaranteed by law |
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| services such as roads, sewers, and railroads that the public expect |
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| what was the verdict in president johnsons impeachment trial |
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| he escaped conviction by one vote |
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| what kind of crops were grown in the south after the war |
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| in his presidential reconstruction plan, andrew johnson |
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| was more generous than lincoln |
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| the most visible new black organizations in the south were |
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| much of the money for improving infrastructure in the south came from |
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| southern state governments restricted the rights of former slaves by |
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| what was a provision of the radical republicans' reconstruction act of 1867 |
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| it put the south under military rule |
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| pardons to southern officials |
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| many poor white southern laborers could no longer find work because of |
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| competition from freedmen |
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| during reconstruction, southern governments tried to improve economic conditions in the south by |
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| building raildorads and budinesses |
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| the main goal of the ku klux klan's terror was to |
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| drive the republicans out of the south and prevent blacks from exercising their rights |
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| after rutherford b hayes became president in 1877, he |
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| removed federal troops from the south |
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| what was a major success of reconstruction in the south |
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| the creation of a public school system |
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| most of the souths postwar industrial growth came from |
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| a major failure of reconstruction was that |
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| racist attitudes continued in the north and south |
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| as white southerners regained control of state governments, they began to |
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| reverse reconstructino era reforms |
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| when Johnson violated the tenure of office act, he was |
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| among republicans the failures of reconstruction was the inability to |
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| move black southerners out of poverty |
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| voters grew tired of reconstruction in part because |
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| it symbolized corruption and greed |
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| the radical republicans opposed president lincolns reconstruction plan, saying it was too |
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| the radical republicans passed a series of laws designed to |
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| protect the civil rights of african americans |
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| congress reacted to klan terror by passing |
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| the enforcement act of 1870 |
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| what did lincoln hope reconstruction would do to the nation |
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| bind the nation together and create a lasting peace |
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| tenant farming encouraged the rise of a new class of wealthy |
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| in their reconstruction policies, both president lincoln and president johnson insisted upon |
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| southern approval of the thirteenth amendment |
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| reconstruction succeeded in its goals of restoring the union and helping to |
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| repair the war-torn south |
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| the freedmens bureau succeeded in |
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| providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people |
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