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Required white males to take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the union. In addition states were required to give blacks the right to vote.
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To help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the south in the after math of the civil war.
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surrenders his army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S.Grant.
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16th President of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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Abolished slavery in the United States.
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Six Confederate Veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the klu klux klan during Reconstruction of the civil war.
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The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition.
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American construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
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The acts divided the south into five military districts.
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Provided all federal officials whose appointment required senate conformation could not be removed without the consent of the senate.
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Impeached the President for high crimes and misdemeanors... on weak later, the house adopted eleven articles of impeachment against the President.
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Granted citizenship to all person born or naturalized in the United States.
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Led the union armies to victory over the confederacy in the American civil war.
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Granted African American men the right to vote.
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was an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the south, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
