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- Atlanta newspaper editor ____________ headed a group that urged Southerners to " out-Yankee the Yankees" and build a "New South."
- The Democrats chose New York governor ________________ as their candidate.
- The Republican Party rejected Johnson and instead nominated Civil War hero _______________.
- Northern whites who moved to the South after the war, White Southerners called these Northerners _________________, this term referred to cheap suitcases made of carpet fabric-what white Southerners might have thought untrustworthy newcomers might carry.
- _______________ are dishonest or illegal actions.
- Congress wanted to protect the Secretary of War __________________, he was the cabinet official in charge of the military and a supporter of Radical Reconstruction.
- ____________ was the leader of the republican group who said that Southern institutions "must be broken up and relaid, or all our blood and treasure have been spent in vain."
- A_________________ empowered the army to register voters in each district and to help organize state constitutional conventions.
- Congress passed a series of laws to limit Johnson's power, one of these laws was the ___________________, this law stated that the president could not remove government officials, including members of his own cabinet, without the Senate's approval.
- The _____________ required voters in each Southern state to take an oath of loyalty to the Union. When 10 percent of the voters in the state had taken the oath, the state could form a new state government. The state would also have to adopt a new constitution that banned slavery.
- Congress passed the ___________________, this law required that those states form a new government, it divided the 10 defiant into five military districts. Former Confederate leaders were banned from serving in these new governments.
- To unite, or to blend into a united whole is called______________.
- Congress was able to ______________, or defeat, both vetoes, and the bills became law.
- The law that was passed in the South just after the Civil War and was called ____________, and aimed at controlling freed men and Women, and allowing plantation owners to take advantage of African American workers.
- Some Southern whites supported the Republican Party, these were often ______________ and farmers who had not owned enslaved people.
- The period of rebuilding the South and readmitting Southern states into the Union _________________.
- The vice president _______________ became president. Although he was a Southerner who swore loyalty to the Union.
- Lincoln and Congress together created the ___________. Its main purpose was to help African Americans adjust to life after slavery.
- The ____________ stated that to rejoin the Union, a state must meet three requirements.
- The ___________________ gave the federal government power to get involved in state affairs to protect African Americans' rights. It also gave citizenship to African Americans.