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Andrew Jackson. Impeached in 1868. Fourteenth Amendment. Gave full citizenship and equal protection to all people born in the United States. Thirteenth Amendment. Outlawed slavery in the United States. Redeemers .
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Andrew Jackson Impeached in 1868
Fourteenth Amendment Gave full citizenship and equal protection to all people born in the United States
Thirteenth Amendment Outlawed slavery in the United States
Redeemers Leaders in the South who supported economic development and opposed Northern interference
Blanche K. Bruce African American senator from Mississippi
Ku Klux Klan Used violence and terrorism to deny rights to freed men and women
Amnesty Act Pardoned most former Confederates and allowed them to vote and hold office
Freedmen’s Bureau Government agency that helped African Americans adjust to freedom
Reconstruction The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War
Public Schools Created by Reconstruction governments
Hiram Revels African American man elected to the Senate from Mississippi
Tennessee First to rejoin the Union
Ten Percent Plan Plan proposed by Lincoln for accepting the South back into the Union
Fifteenth Amendment African Americans men who won the right to vote
Jim Crow Laws Required African Americans and whites to remain separate in all public places
Scalawags Term for Southerners who supported the Republicans
Black Codes Laws passed in the South designed to control freed men and women
Compromise of 1877 Republicans promised to withdraw troops from Southern states
Radical Reconstruction Period when Radical Republicans in Congress directed Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln His assassination changed the course of Reconstruction