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| 697696189 | freedmen | common term for the blacks newly liberated from slavery | |
| 697696193 | freedman's bureau | Federal agency that greatly assisted blacks educationally but failed in other aid efforts | |
| 697696196 | baptist | the largest african american denomination after slavery | |
| 697696201 | 10% plan | Lincoln's 1863 program for a rapid Reconstruction of the South | |
| 697696206 | 13th amendment | Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery | |
| 697696211 | black codes | The harsh Southern state laws of 1865 that limited black rights and imposed restrictions to ensure a stable black labor supply | |
| 697696215 | 14th amendment | constitutional amendment granting civil rights to freed slaves and barrin former confederates from office | |
| 697696218 | moderates | republican reconstructionists who favored a more rapid restoration of Southern state governments and opposed radical plans for drastic economic transformation of the south | |
| 697696222 | radicals | Republican Reconstructionists who favored keeping the South out of the federal government until a complete social and economic revolution was accomplished in the region | |
| 697696225 | union league | the black political organization that promoted self-help and defense of political rights | |
| 697696228 | ex parte milligan | Supreme Court ruling that military tribunals could not try civilians when the civil courts were open | |
| 697696230 | scalawags | Derogatory term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Republican Reconstruction governments | |
| 697696233 | carpet baggers | derogatory term for northerners who came to the south during reconstruction and sometimes took part in republican state governments | |
| 697696236 | 15th amendment | constitutional amendment guaranteeing male blacks the right to vote | |
| 697696239 | alaska | "Seward's Folly," acquired in 1867 from Russia | |
| 697696242 | exodusters | blacks who left the south for kansas and elsewhere during reconstruction | |
| 697696245 | oliver o. howard | pro-black general who led an agency that tried to assist the freedmen | |
| 697696248 | andrew johnson | born a poor white southerner, he became the white south's champion against radical reconstruction | |
| 697696251 | abraham lincoln | author of the moderate 10% plan that ran into congressional opposition | |
| 697696253 | civil rights bill of 1866 | first congressional attempt to guarantee black rights in the south, passed over johnson's veto | |
| 697696257 | charles sumner | Beaten in the Senate Chamber before the civil war, he became the leader of Senate Republican Radicals during Reconstruction | |
| 697696262 | thaddeus stevens | Leader of radical Republicans in the house of Representatives | |
| 697696266 | military reconstruction act of 1867 | congressional law that imposed military rule on the south and demanded harsh conditions for readmission of the seceded states | |
| 697696270 | hiram revels | black republican senator from Mississippi during reconstruction | |
| 697696276 | ku klux klan | secret organization that intimidated blacks and worked to restore white supremacy | |
| 697696279 | force acts of 1870 and 1871 | laws designed to stamp out Ku Klux KLan terrorism in the south | |
| 697696282 | tenure of office act | a Constitutionally questionable law whose violation by President Johnson formed the basis for his impeachment | |
| 697696286 | union league | leading black political organization during reconstruction | |
| 697696290 | benjamin wade | the president pro tempore of the senate who hoped to become president of the US after johnson's impeachment conviction | |
| 697696296 | william seward | secretary of state who arranged an initially unpopular but valuable land deal in 1867 | |
| 697696302 | provoked a politically motivated trial to remove the president from office | the radical Republican's hatred of Johnson | |
| 697696306 | intimidated black voters and tried to keep blacks "in their place" | The Klu Klux Klan | |
| 697696316 | prompted republicans to refuse to seat southern delegations in congress | the election of ex-Confederates to Congress in 1863 | |
| 697696319 | destroyed the southern economy but strengthened southern hatred of "yankees" | the south's military defeat in the civil war | |
| 697696324 | successfully educated former slaves but failed to provide much other assistance to them | the Freedmen's Bureau | |
| 697696332 | forced all the southern states to establish governments that upheld black voting and other civil rights | Military Reconstruction and the 14th and 15th amendments | |
| 697696335 | embittered white southerners while doing little to really help blacks | the whole Reconstruction era | |
| 697696340 | engaged in some corruption but also enacted many valuable social reforms | the "radical" Southern state Reconstruction governments | |
| 697696345 | weakened support for mild reconstruction policies and helped elect overwhelming republican majorities to congress | Johnson's "swing around the circle" in the election of 1866 | |
| 697696350 | imposed slavery like restrictions on blacks and angered the north | The Black Codes of 1865 |
