Study pt.2 (2/20/25)

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(Blank) was the process of reuniting and rebuilding the nation without slavery following the Civil War.

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Reconstruction

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___ proposed the __, a plan for readmitting southern states to the Union.

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Abraham Lincoln, 10% plan

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The __ Amendment, passed by Congress in 1865, made slavery illegal.

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Thirteenth

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__ was a leader of the Radical Republicans from Pennsylvania who wanted the better lives of African Americans and poor white southerners.

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Thaddeus Stevens

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To ensure that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would not be overturned, Congress proposed the __ Amendment, which granted citizenship to African Americans.

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Fourteenth

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After president Andrew Johnson angered Congress by firing his secretary of war, the House of Representatives voted to __ the president, or bring formal charges of wrongdoing against him.

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Impeach

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The Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men __ rights in the United States.

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voting

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The __ was a secret society that opposed civil rights for African Americans.

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KKK

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The __ was an agreement that allowed the Democrats to accept Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South.

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Compromise of 1877

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Common in southern states, __ enforced segregation, or the separation of whites from African Americans in public places.

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JIm Crow Laws