Reconstruction

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Andrew Johnson

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The President after Abraham Lincoln

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Reconstruction

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The period of rebuilding after the Civil War

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Radical Republicans

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wanted to take power away from slaveholders and give African Americans citizenship

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Freedman's Bureau

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government agency that helped freed blacks and poor whites

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black codes

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laws that restricted African Americans' lives

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Fourteenth Amendment

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Prevented states from denying rights of any U.S. citizen

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Fifteenth Amendment

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Banned states from denying African Americans the right to vote

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Hiram Revels

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first black senator

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sharecropping

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system in which landowners leased land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops

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ku klux klan

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Southern vigilante group who used violence against blacks