USH: Reconstruction Review (CH.12)

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The Civil War left the South

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In ruins

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Many poor white southern laborers could no longer find work because of:

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Competition from freedmen

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In his Presidential Reconstruction plan, Andrew Johnson

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was more generous than Lincoln

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President Johnson freely gave

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pardons to Southern officials

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To help black southerners adjust to freedom, Congress created

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the Freedmen's Bureau

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Under President Johnson's Reconstruction plan, white southerners began to enact laws that

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gave whites power over African Americans

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The Reconstruction Act of 1867:

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put the South under military rule

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When President Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act, he was

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impeached by the House

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In 1870, thanks to the Fifteenth Amendment, southern black men

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voted for the first time.

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Carpetbaggers were northern Republicans who

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moved to the postwar South