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Reconstruction

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Government attempt to rebuild the south

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Black codes

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Laws that limited the freedom of former enslaved people

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Amnesty

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Official pardon

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Civil rights

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Rights gave to citizens

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Scalawag

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White southerner, supported radical reconstruction

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Carpetbagger

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Northerner who went to the south for the radical reconstruction

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Andrew Johnson

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Democrat, the 17th president

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Plantations

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A large farm that grows cash crops

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Lynch

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To kill by hanging without due process of law

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KKK

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Ku klux klan

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Stock market

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Place where shares of ownership in companies are bought and sold

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Depression

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Time of low business and high unemployment

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Compromise

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Settlement of diffrences in which each side gives up something

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Panic of 1873

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Financial panic, banks closed and the stock market crashed

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Stipulation

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Act of specifying a condition in an agreement

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Intrinsic

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Basic,essential

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Transition

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Moving from one stage to another

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Scope

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Range covered by a subject

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Ordinance

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Law set forth by a governmental authority

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Ratified

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Approved

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13th amendment

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End slavery

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14th amendment

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Citizenship

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15th amendment

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Right to vote