Unit 2 Lesson 6 Flashcards

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Freedmen's Bureau

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Government department that was in charge or providing relief to formerly enslaved people and poor white Southerners

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Black Codes

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Laws passed by Southern states during Reconstruction to restrict the rights and freedoms of formerly enslaved people

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Radical Republicans

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Group of Republicans in Congress who believed that the Southern states could not rebuild themselves or their governments without forceful leadership from the government

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Civil Rights Act of 1866

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Established African Americans' legal rights as equal to white Americans and forbade legal discrimination against them

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14th Amendment

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Granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born or naturalized within the United States

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Tenure of Office Act

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Passed by Congress to try and limit the president's constitutional power to hire and fire members of the executive branch cabinet

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Impeachment

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Is the process by which an elected government official is charged with wrongdoing