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- Guarantees the rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States and requires that the laws must provide equal protection and due process to all people.
- Second round of Reconstruction dominated by Radical Republicans in Congress, who took steps to protect African Americans and prevent former Confederates from gaining power.
- One of two African Americans elected in the South to the Senate during the Reconstruction Era, which caused bitter resentment among ex-Confederates..
- Amendment passed during Reconstruction which prohibits the denial of voting rights to any citizen based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
- Derisive term Southern Democrats used for Southerners who were sympathetic to Republican policies, ideas and programs.
- House of Representatives votes to officially accuse a federal official of misconduct, which if passed results in a trial in the Senate and potential removal from office.
- Derisive term Southern Democrats used for Northern newcomers after the Civil War who came to the South for political and economic opportunities.
- Law passed by Republicans that pronounced all African Americans were citizens, however, Republicans feared the law was not strong enough and pushed for a constitutional amendment.
- One of two African Americans elected in the South to the Senate during the Reconstruction Era and became famous for taking the Mississippi Senate seat once held by Jefferson Davis.
- Passed by Congress over President Johnson's vetoes, these laws placed the South under military occupation and increased the requirements for getting readmitted to the Union.
- Reconstruction law that guaranteed equal accommodations in public places and prohibited courts from excluding African Americans from juries, but was poorly enforced.
- Leader of the Radical Republicans in the Senate along with Thaddeus Stevens, who led the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives.
- President after Lincoln's assassination, he favored leniency for the South, which led to conflict with Radical Republicans and Congress and culminated in impeachment proceedings in 1868.
- Law that prohibited the president from removing a federal official without Senate approval that was passed by Congress over President Johnson's veto.
- Amendment passed during Reconstruction that banned slavery.
- National government agency that was meant to assist former slaves with housing, food and education, however, the agency's funding was ended in 1870.
- what was a main help during the industrial revolution
- Established firmer protection for private property and asserted the right of the Supreme Court to invalidate with the Federal constitution
- Suit over whether New York State could grant a monopoly to a ferry operating on interstate waters. The ruling reasserted that Congress had the sole power to regulate interstate commerce.
- When did the battle of Quebec happen