• The Reconstruction Acts, or the Military Reconstruction Acts (March 2, 1867, 14 Stat. 428-430, c.153; March 23, 1867, 15 Stat. 2-5, c.6; July 19, 1867...
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    of Congress. In 1867 and 1868, the Radical Republicans passed the Reconstruction Acts over Johnson's vetoes, setting out the terms by which the former...
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  • The Reconstruction Acts, or Military Reconstruction Acts, addressing requirements for Southern States to be readmitted to the Union Reconstruction Finance...
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    American South. The districts were stipulated by the Reconstruction Acts during the Reconstruction period following the American Civil War. In March 1867...
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    leading ex-Confederates) without regard to race or property. Under the Reconstruction Acts, the new constitutions required ratification by a majority of registered...
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    The Reconstruction Amendments, or the Civil War Amendments, are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution...
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  • Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880...
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  • Fables of the Reconstruction (or Reconstruction of the Fables) is the third studio album by American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released on June...
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    Fifth Military District (category Reconstruction Era)
    from 1867 to 1870. The district was stipulated by the Reconstruction Acts during the Reconstruction period following the American Civil War. It covered...
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    helped define states' rights by determining the legality of the Reconstruction acts passed by Congress. Ex parte Garland dealt with the disbarment from...
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    marking the start of the Reconstruction era in the eleven former Confederate states. Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts, starting in 1867, establishing...
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    Ulysses S. Grant (category People of the Reconstruction Era)
    passed three Enforcement Acts, designed to protect black people and Reconstruction governments. Using the Enforcement Acts, Grant crushed the Klan. By...
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  • was held. Enslavement of African Americans ended and the federal Reconstruction Acts enshrined their basic civil and political rights. African Americans...
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    appointment Judicial appointment Conclusion of Civil War Reconstruction era Reconstruction Acts Civil Rights Act (1866) Swing Around the Circle Impeachment...
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    Second Military District (category Reconstruction Era)
    American South. The district was stipulated by the Reconstruction Acts during the Reconstruction period following the American Civil War. It included...
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  • southern U.S. states as having satisfied the requirements of the Reconstruction Acts. The Omnibus Act of February 22, 1889 provided for the admission...
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    is considered the first Reconstruction governor of Arkansas, as he was allowed to stay in office after the Reconstruction Acts were passed by Congress...
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  • party's founding before the American Civil War in 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877. They were known for their loyal support of...
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  • administration appointed by Lincoln. Reconstruction Acts. Widespread violent resistance in the South to Reconstruction. Lichtman considers the impeachment...
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    and wrote a platform calling for civil service reform and an end to Reconstruction. Democratic Party leaders believed that their only hope of defeating...
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    election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1868. In the first election of the Reconstruction Era, Republican nominee Ulysses S. Grant defeated Horatio Seymour of...
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    Rutherford B. Hayes (category Moderate Republicans (Reconstruction era))
    continued to vote with the majority in the 40th Congress on the Reconstruction Acts, but resigned in July 1867 to run for governor of Ohio. A popular...
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    Herbert; Baker, Jean Harvey; Holt, Michael F. (2001). The Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 427. ISBN 9780393974270. "Voter...
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    Louis P. (2015). McPherson, James (ed.). Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion. Oxford University Press. pp. xiii–xiv....
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    After Johnson vetoed various congressional acts favoring citizenship for freedmen, a much harsher Reconstruction for the defeated South, and other bills...
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    place during the Reconstruction Era, and many Southerners were barred from voting. However, Congress's various Reconstruction Acts required southern...
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  • stationed throughout the South via military districts enacted by the Reconstruction Acts; they protected freedmen in voting polls and public facilities from...
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    First Military District (category Reconstruction Era)
    American South. The district was stipulated by the Reconstruction Acts during the Reconstruction period following the American Civil War. It only included...
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    Reconstruction acts Habeas Corpus Act of 1867 Enforcement Act of 1870 Enforcement Act of February 1871 Enforcement Act of April 1871 Reconstruction era...
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  • Mississippi attempted to sue President Andrew Johnson for enforcing the Reconstruction Acts. The court decided, based on a previous decision of Marbury v. Madison...
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