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Lincoln Assassination
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Undergraduate 1
11/30/2012
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Ku Klux Klan
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formed in 1874 in Tennessee.

originally founded as a social club.

formed in opposition to the northern government.

operates as a shadow government.
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Comprommise of 1877
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southerners propose that they will allow a republican president in return for the end of the union army occupation in the south.
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Redeemers
 Definition
Democrat politicians whose goal was to restore white supremacy in the south.
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Jim Crow
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A legal and social system by which blacks are made second class citizens in the south.
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Lost Cause
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The myth of the heroic nobility of the south in the Civil War.
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