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The bill required the majority of the adult white males in a former Confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the union. Lincoln later poket vetoed it.
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The Amendment which offically abolished slavery in the United States of America.
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The KKK's goal was to drive out the carpetbeggers and intimidate African American voters so as to regain contorl of the South for the Democratic Party.
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Act granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States except Native Americans.
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The institution was founded byb a group of Congregationalists who wanted to establish a seminary for African American ministers.
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The Hampton institute was started to teach African Americans trading and agricultural techniques.
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Amendment granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the Untied States and decalred that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property "without due process of law."
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General Ulysses S. Grant is voted into office. However, he had little experience in polotics.
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Declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied.. on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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This act outlawed the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. This act is also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871.
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A time of Depression in America where dozens of small banks closed, and the stock market plummeted.
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A group of geoverment officals and distillers in St. Louis cheated the goverment out of millions of dollars by filing false tax reports.
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In the 1870's Reconstruction goverments built a comprehensive public school system in the South. By 1876, about 40 percent of all African American children attended school.
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A Compromise which settled the dispute over the 1876 presidential election. also known as "the corrupt bargain"
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Hayes expressed his desire to move the country beyond the quarrelsome years of Reconstruction.
