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| Southern whites who supported Northern Republicans during Reconstruction |
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| Why did Congress pass the Military Reconstruction Act? |
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| to make sure that southern states wrote new constitutions and treated freed blacks fairly. |
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| What was the purpose of the Freedmans bureau? |
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| To provide food, education and medicine to freed blacks and poor whites. |
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| Which amendment abolished slavery? |
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| What Supreme Court case legalized Jim Crow laws? |
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| Plessy v Ferguson because they court rules that 'separate but equal' was constitutional |
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| Northerners who went South to make money. Many were dishonest and took advantage of the post war situation. |
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| Which Amendment gave freed black men the right to vote? |
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| What were the Southern laws called that resticted the freedom and civil liberties of freed African Americans? |
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| What was the impact of the Compromise of 1877 on Reconstruction? |
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| It basically ended Reconstruction when the Military pulled out and white Southerners were allowed to have political control again. |
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| an official pardon (forgiveness) |
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| What Amendment gave African Americans the rights of citizenship and equal protection under the law? |
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| What were the Southern laws called that kept blacks separate from whites? |
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| What does it mean to be impeached? |
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| a government official is charged with wrongdoing. |
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