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Republican president elected in 1876 after
making a compromise with the Democrats
to end Reconstruction (3 Words)
made anyone born in the U.S. citizens and
guaranteed civil rights to all Americans (2
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name for free blacks
a southern name for a northerner who
moved south to aid in reconstruction
provided clothing, medical care, food, and
education to many freed people (2 Words)
attempt to repair damage to the South and
bring southern states to the Union.
White Southern Republicans and people
opposed secession
a 1876 compromise to make Rutherford B.
Hayes the President of the U.S., and to end
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law pass by President Grant that banned the
use of terror, force or bribery to prevent
people from voting (4 Words)
Lincoln’s plan to restore the South into the
Union. Considered lenient. (3 Words)
a system of agriculture in which a landowner
allows a tenant(sharecropper) to use the
land in return for a share of the crops
produced on their portion of land. Often the
sharecropper would fall deeper into debt
with the land owner
their goal was “to defend the social and
political superiority” of whites against what
they called the “aggressions of an inferior
race” (3 Words)
first African American Senator (2 Words)
laws that Southern state governments used
to restrict the rights of former slaves (2
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farmer rents land from the owner. Unlike
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Republican president elected in 1876 after
making a compromise with the Democrats
to end Reconstruction (3 Words)
made anyone born in the U.S. citizens and
guaranteed civil rights to all Americans (2
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name for free blacks
a southern name for a northerner who
moved south to aid in reconstruction
provided clothing, medical care, food, and
education to many freed people (2 Words)
attempt to repair damage to the South and
bring southern states to the Union.
White Southern Republicans and people
opposed secession
a 1876 compromise to make Rutherford B.
Hayes the President of the U.S., and to end
Reconstruction (3 Words)
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ended slavery (2 Words)
gave every male citizen above a certain age
the right to vote (2 Words)
along with the Radical Republicans, this
president pushed for civil rights of African
Americans in the South (3 Words)
law pass by President Grant that banned the
use of terror, force or bribery to prevent
people from voting (4 Words)
Lincoln’s plan to restore the South into the
Union. Considered lenient. (3 Words)
a system of agriculture in which a landowner
allows a tenant(sharecropper) to use the
land in return for a share of the crops
produced on their portion of land. Often the
sharecropper would fall deeper into debt
with the land owner
their goal was “to defend the social and
political superiority” of whites against what
they called the “aggressions of an inferior
race” (3 Words)
first African American Senator (2 Words)
laws that Southern state governments used
to restrict the rights of former slaves (2
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