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- The Radical Republicans were able to gain control of two-thirds of both houses of Congress and thereby override Andrew Johnson's presidential vetoes
- was designed to keep freed slaves in subjection and prevent them from exercising their political rights.
- Kept states from denying blacks the right to vote
- What agricultural economic system developed in the South after the Civil War?
- What secret organization arose in the South to frighten blacks and discourage them from voting or running for political office after the Civil war?
- Southern businessmen hoped the "new South" would rival the North as an economic force
- Because of the civil rights laws and amendments passed during Reconstruction, blacks were able to find political equality with whites by the end of the 1800s.
- Sharecroppers usually remained in debt year after year.
- secretary of war who refused to leave office
- The British taxed colonists and citizen after the French and Indian war to pay for?
- The Tea Act of 1773 gave this compony a monopoly in the Tea industry in the colonies.
- The Townshends Act was repealled all except for one item, this item was?
- This confrontation in Boston caused the death of 5 colonists.
- If a tax or act was repreal that means it was ?
- What shape were the British in after the French and Indian War?
- Who surprised attacked the French in the first conflict of the French and Indian war?
- The Sugar Act was a tax on sugar and mollasses that were necessary for this American business
- What prevented colonists from crossing west of the crest of the Appalacian Mountains?
- The Stamp Act taxed items made out of?
- During the French and Indian War, William Pitt served as this in the British government.