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was a major general during the American Civil War and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1864, who later served as Governor of New Jersey.

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was an American soldier best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865.

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was a Confederate general during the American Civil War

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was the 18th President of the United States<br>

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was aU.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) during the Reconstruction era of the United States.

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were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War.

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The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War

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Decades of growing strife between North and South erupted in civil war on April 12, 1861, when Confederate artillery opened fire on this Federal fort in Charleston Harbor.

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is the current courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia built in 1892. It is located in the middle of the state about three miles (5 km) southwest of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, once known as Clover Hill - home of the originalOld Appomattox Court House. The "new" Appomattox Courthouse is near the Appomattox Station and where the regional county government is located.

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau,[1] was aU.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) during the Reconstruction era of the United States.

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Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the American Civil War.

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a carpetbagger was a Northerner (Yankee) who moved to the South after the U.S. Civil War

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The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland.

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During Reconstruction, however, the conflict over labor resulted in the sharecropping system, in which black families would rent small plots of land in return

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Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as Abraham Lincoln's Vice President at the time of Lincoln's assassination.

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The Confederate States of America, commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was a secessionist government established in 1861 by seven slave states in the Lower South whose economy and political leadership was based on slavery.

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during and after the American Civil War, a member of the Republican Partycommitted to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks.

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name of three distinct movements in the United States. They first played a violent role against African Americans

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Home rule is the power of a constituent part (administrative division) of a state to exercise such of the state's powers of governance within its own administrative

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John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family fromMaryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known acto

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charge with misconduct.

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The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history.[4] It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863

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has two senses: the first covers the complete history of the entire country from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War the second sense focuses on the transformation of the Southern from 1863 to 1877, as directed by Congress, with the reconstruction of state and society.