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- The ____________ branch contains the national courts
- Which constitutional amendment guaranteed the right to vote for all American males regardless of race?
- fraternal groups loyal to the Union and the Republican Party that became political and civic centers for blacks in former Confederate states
- What is generally considered to be the greatest success of the Freedmens Bureau?
- Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, which required only 10 percent of the 1860 voters in Confederate states to take an oath of allegiance to the Union
- the twelve-year period after the Civil War in which the rebel Southern states were integrated back into the Union
- a term used for northerners working in the South during Reconstruction; it implied that these were opportunists who came south for economic or political gain
- On which point did moderates in both northern and southern states agree during the Reconstruction Era?
- the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, which was created in 1865 to ease blacks' transition from slavery to freedom
- Which agency was founded as a result of the Reconstruction effort?
- A special group called the _____________ elects the president and vice-president
- The ___________ branch consists of the president, vice-president, and cabinets
- The ____________ branch is the law-making branch.
- Which statement best describes the underlying reason for Andrew Johnson's impeachment hearings
- In the decision of the case____________________, Cheif Justice John Marshall claimed for the courts the power to find acts of other branches unconstitutional
- Westward bound pioneers typically traveled in canvas covered wagons called _______________ wagons
- A man named _________________ led a revolt against the French against plantation owners after being inspired by the French revolution
- The different branches of government each have a certain _____________________, or legal authority, to operate their branch
- Napoleon had placed troops in the island nation of Haiti, which was once called ________________________ under French occupation
- In the case _____________________, the court ruled that states could not regulate the affairs of Native Americans, but reminded that the federal government did have the power