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After the Civil War, production of several southern crops took decades to return to prewar levels
During Ulysses S. Grant's two terms as president, Reconstruction remained the dominant political issue for the majority of northern voters.
President Johnson's veto of a bill renewing the Freedmen's Bureau, as well as his criticism of Radical Republican support for black civil rights, did little to drive a wedge between the two wings of the Republican party.
The chief debate within the federal government over who should direct the Reconstruction of the South was between the executive and legislative branches of government.
After the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, Congress assumed authority over Reconstruction.How did Congressional Reconstruction efforts affect the lives of African Americans in the South?
Which of the following arguments is best supported by this excerpt from an 1865 Mississippi law on vagrancy?"All freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes in this State, over the age of eighteen years, found on the second Monday in January, 1866, or thereafter, with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawfully assembling themselves together, either in the day or night time ... shall be deemed vagrants, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding ... fifty dollars ... and imprisoned at the discretion of the court ... not exceeding ten days."
KU KLUX KLAN organized Congress passed Civil Right Act
Compromise of 1877 end Reconstruction
African American votes help elect what president in 1868?
Reestablishment of white Democratic rule("redeemers") in former confederate states.
While Reconstruction did not immediately provide for the full protection of economic opportunities or social equality for African Americans, it did leave behind a constitutional legacy that allowed for future civil rights achievements.
14th amendment is ratifiedThe U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Andrew Johnson; the senate fails to convict himGrant elected PresidentSix former Confederate states readmitted to the Union
Congress sets up Freedmen's BureauLincoln assassination April 14thJohnson issues Proclamation of Amnesty
Congress passed Military Reconstruction ActFreedmen begin participating in elections
Southern states legislatures pass black code
15th amendment ratified First Enforcement Act passed
this was the first plan of permanent form of government for the United States
what argument did Hamilton use in his debate with Jefferson over the national banks constitutionality?
Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and the United States resolved may outstanding border questions. The treaty was also an important development because it
The development of a market economy in the United States in the first half of the 19th century was stimulated mostly by which of the following