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An alternative plan to Lincoln's reconstruction plan. Bill required all of the adult white males of the Confederacy to take an oath of allegiance to the Union.
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40,000 former slaves were placed on southern plantations during Sherman's March. The buraeau was given the task of feeding and clothing war refugees in the South using surplus army supplies.
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Vice president during Lincoln's second term. Resident of Tennessee, he was considered a hero in the North when he remained loyal even after the succession of Tennessee.
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Founded by six well-educated Confederate veterans. Responsible for over 150 murders by June 1867.
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Located in Nashville Tennessee. Home of the world famous Fisk Jubilee Singers.
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Alma mater of many black leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Located in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Located in Washington D.C. First law school for African Americans.
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Granted citizenship to all people born in the United States, excluding Native Americans. Allowed African Americans to own property.
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Right to vote shall not be denied. Allowed African Americans to run for political offices.
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Signed by President Ulysses S. Grant. Outlawed activities of the Klan.
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Banks forclosed. Economic collapse.
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Distillers in St. Louis cheated the government out of millions of dollars by filing false tax returns. Repotedly, Grant's private secretary, Oliver E. Babcock, was involved.
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Republicans did not elect Grant for a third term, due to scandals. Instead they ran Rutherforrd B. Hayes against Samuel Tilden.
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Also known as the "corrupt bargain." As a result of it, Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president.
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Powerful white southernors and northern financers brought great economic change to the south. Southern industry began to boom again. Many African-Americans, though, lost hope of owning their own land in the south and went back onto white plantations to either work for low wages, or be tenant farmers.
