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He offers a pardon to all Southerners who took an oath of loyality to the Untied States and accepted the Union's proclamations concerning slavery
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Required the majority of the adult white males in a former Confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the Union
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elimated the institution of slavery in the US
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Given the task of feeding and and clothing war refugees in the South using surplus army supplies
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Creation of secrete societies that use intimidation and voilence against African Americans, Catholics, and other groups not white or prtoestant
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Granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States except Native Americans. Declared that no state could deprive any person of life, libery, or property "without due process of law."
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Created by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to establish a seminart for African American ministers. Later became the first Law school for African Americans
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Elected because of his war reputation but had little experience in politics
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Established to teach African Americans a trade or agricultural techniques
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1st - Made it a federal crime to interfere with a citizen's right to vote.
2nd - Put federal elections under the supervision of federal marshals
3rd - Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawed the activites of the Klan -
Declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied... on account of race, color, or previous conditoin of servitude."
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Many small banks closed, the stock market plummeted, thousands of businesses shut down, and unemployment was very high
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Included diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors.
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Severl Southern Democrates joined with the Republicans in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and voted for Rutherford B. Hayes
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First College for African American women
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By 1809, almost 40,00 miles of track crisscrossed the South. Industries such as iron, steel, tobacco, and cotton greatly helped the Southern ecomony.
