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Bill requiring majority of adult white males in a former Confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the Union.
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Ku Klux Klan formed to rebel against the "Black Republicans" because they believed the Northerners forced these governments on them.
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Begins feeding and clothing wawr refugees in the South using surplus army supplies.
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Granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States except Native Americans.
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Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and declared that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property "without due process of law."
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African Americans began campaigning and males could now vote.
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Taxes that helped the government pay off the bonds that had been issued to pay for the Civil War.
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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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Through the congressional Reconstruction plan, the Republican party took power and introduced major reforms.
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Freedmen's Bureau established schools for African Americans across the South.
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Outlawed the activities of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Economic crisis in which dozens of smaller banks closed and the stock market plummeted.
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A scandal by a group of government officials and distillers in St. Louis, Missouri that cheated the government out of millions of dollars by filing false tax reports.
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A promise by the Republicans to pull federal troops out of the South if Hayes were elected.
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Trapping of sharecroppers on the land because they could not make enough money to pay off their debts and leave nor could they declare bankruptcy.
