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235754745PardonTo excuse0
235754746Tenure of office actPresident can not hire or fire a government official with out the the approval of congress.1
235754747Radical republicans.Republicans who wanted total reconstruction of south and grant the African Americans civil rights.2
235754748Aberham Lincoln.He was the president during the civil war and reconstruction. HE was assasinated by John Wilkes Booth.3
235754749John Wilkes BoothHe was a southern Sympathizer and he was an actor. This is the man that killed Lincoln.4
235754750Andrew Johnson.He was the president after Lincoln was killed. Before Lincoln was killed he was his vice President. Forced to be president. First president to be impeached5
235754751Edwin Stanton.He was Johnson's secratary of war. He gets fired by Johnson. He was also a friend of the Radical Republican's.6
235754752Rutherford B. Hayes.He runs for president against Tilden and wins because he got the electoral vote.7
235754753Freed blacks.They would go to there family's and get legally Married. get a job/education and they would spend lots of time in a church.8
235754754Scalawagswhite Southern Republicans that opposed secession; many were poor and sent to the south as trader.9
235754755CarpetbaggersNorthern republicans who fled to the south to profit from the south's Mmsery; came to make money off of the damaged south.10
235754756impeachto remove a government offcial from the office11
235754757sharecroppersfarm a portion of the planters land. Planter would provide food, water, and shelter. the sharecropper paid his rent with a large portion of crop that he had raised. Sharecropper always in the cycle of debt.12
235754758Tenant farmingpay rent for land and they farmed the land. They made maybe A small profit.13
235754759The election of 1868close race with Ulysses S. Grant and Horatio Seymour.14
235754761Ulysses S. GrantHe ran against Seymour in the election of 1868 adn he won. He was the Governor of New York before he ran.15
235754763Horatio SeymourRan against Grant and lost16
23575476413th amendmentThis was the outlaw of slavery in the North and south.17
23575476614th amendmentThis got rid of the 3/5 clause and made the blacks a whole person.18
23575476815th amendmentthe right to vote for the freed blacks.19
235754770Changes in the southAfter the war there were a lot of changes in the south. All of the houses were burned down there were no more railroads, livestock was all killed.20
235754772Civil Rights ActThis act was passed so that the freedman can have equal rights with the white men21
235754774Black codes.These were to resrict the freedman's rights. They had a curfew , and they were punished if they were not working. And if you quit in the middle of a contract you loose all of the money you have earned.22
23575477610 % planthis was to pardon ant Confed. who swore allegiance to the Union. Each state could hold a constitutional convention after 10 % of voters had sworn to the Union. then States were part of the Union.23
235754777KKKThis stands for Ku Klux Klan. They were a secerat white society who did not approve of the Freed blacks. They wanted to spread white superiority. They wold go around anf ind freed blacks and then they would beat them and hang them. A sign of the clan is a burning cross. The Klan still exsites today!!24
235754779White LeagueThey were very simalliar to the klan except they were not as mean to the blacks and they do not exsit any more. Back then the Klan and the White league were very close.25
235754781Samuel TildenHe ran against Hayes in the 1876 election and he lost but he did win the popular vote26
235754783Power strugleThis was when Johnson fired Stanton and he was impeached.27
235754785Freedman's bureauThis gave food, medical supplies and food to the freedman. This also gave away confiscated land but it was later returned to its original owner.28
235754787Labor contractsThis was when the freedblacks had to work or they would be punished and if they quit in the middle of a contract they would not get the money that they had earned29
235754789ReconstructionThsi was after the war when the north wanted to get the south back into the union and the north would get the south back to they way that it was before the war started.30
235754791popular votethis was when the people that voted for this one person this is when he got the most votes form the peopl31
235754793Electorial vote.This was when the people of congress voted for who the y wanted as president and who ever won this vote was to be the next president.32

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