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the period following the Civil War during which the U.S. government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states

the name for President Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction; once 10 percent of voters in a former Confederate state took a U.S. loyalty oath, they could form a new state government and be readmitted to the Union

a constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery

an agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South

an American politician and the seventeenth president of the United States; upon the assassination of Lincoln, he was impeached for his unpopular ideas about Reconstruction. He held onto the office by a one-vote margin

laws passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

members of Congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union

a law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans

a constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians

the laws that put the southern states under U.S. military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the Fourteenth Amendment

the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official

a constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote

he became the first African American in the U.S. Senate

a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights

an agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876; Democrats agreed to accept Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops from the South