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150 relations: Abolitionism in the United States, Abraham Lincoln, Adelbert Ames, African Americans, Allan Nevins, American Civil War, Amos T. Akerman, Andrew Johnson, Army of the Potomac, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Austin Blair, Benjamin Butler, Benjamin Wade, Brownlow's Whig, C. Vann Woodward, California, Carpetbagger, Charles D. Drake, Charles Sumner, Civil and political rights, Civil Rights Act of 1866, Civil rights movement, Claude Bowers, Columbia University, Compromise of 1877, Confederate States of America, Daniel Phillips Upham, Dunning School, Edmund J. Davis, Edward McPherson, Edwin Stanton, Elihu B. Washburne, Enforcement Acts, Equal Protection Clause, Eric Foner, Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Forty-Eighters, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Franklin J. Moses Jr., Free Soil Party, Freedman, Friedrich Hecker, Galusha A. Grow, George B. McClellan, George Henry Williams, George S. Boutwell, George Washington Julian, Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Half-Breeds (politics), Hannibal Hamlin, ..., Harrison Reed (politician), Henry C. Warmoth, Henry Jarvis Raymond, Henry Wilson, Henry Winter Davis, History of the United States Democratic Party, History of the United States Republican Party, Horace Greeley, Howard K. Beale, Impeachment in the United States, Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Ironclad oath, Jacob M. Howard, James A. Garfield, James F. Wilson, James G. Blaine, James Henry Lane (Union general), James M. Hinds, James Mitchell Ashley, James Shepherd Pike, James Speed, Jayhawker, Jim Crow laws, John A. Logan, John Bingham, John Burgess (political scientist), John C. Frémont, John Conness, John Creswell, John P. Hale, Joshua Reed Giddings, Ku Klux Klan, Left-wing politics, Liberal Republican Party (United States), Lot M. Morrill, Massachusetts, Memphis riots of 1866, Neoabolitionism, New Orleans massacre of 1866, New York City, Ohio, Oliver P. Morton, Paris Commune, Pennsylvania, Radical Democracy Party (United States), Radicalism (historical), Reconstruction Acts, Reconstruction era, Redeemers, Reuben Fenton, Richard Yates (politician, born 1815), Roger D. Launius, Rufus Bullock, Rufus P. Spalding, Rutherford B. Hayes, Salmon P. Chase, Samuel C. Pomeroy, Samuel J. Kirkwood, Samuel Shellabarger, Scalawag, Schuyler Colfax, Slave Power, Stalwarts (politics), Supreme Court of the United States, T. Harry Williams, Tenure of Office Act (1867), Thaddeus Stevens, The Journal of American History, The New York Times, Third Enforcement Act, Thomas Clement Fletcher, Timothy O. Howe, Ulysses S. Grant, Union (American Civil War), United States, United States Attorney General, United States Congress, United States Congress Joint Committee on Reconstruction, United States House of Representatives, United States House of Representatives elections, 1866, United States presidential election, 1856, United States presidential election, 1872, United States presidential election, 1876, United States Secretary of the Interior, United States Secretary of the Treasury, United States Secretary of War, United States Senate, United States Senate elections, 1866 and 1867, Veto, W. E. B. Du Bois, Wade–Davis Bill, War Democrat, Whig Party (United States), William Archibald Dunning, William B. Hesseltine, William D. Kelley, William Gannaway Brownlow, William H. Seward, William Woods Holden, Zachariah Chandler. Expand index (100 more) »
Abolitionism in the United States
Abolitionism in the United States was the movement before and during the American Civil War to end slavery in the United States.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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Adelbert Ames
Adelbert Ames (October 31, 1835 – April 13, 1933) was an American sailor, soldier, and politician who served with distinction as a Union Army general during the American Civil War.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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Allan Nevins
Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 – March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Amos T. Akerman
Amos Tappan Akerman (February 23, 1821 – December 21, 1880) served as United States Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant from 1870 to 1871.
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Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875) was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869.
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Army of the Potomac
The Army of the Potomac was the principal Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 a.m., in the Petersen House opposite the theater.
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Austin Blair
Austin Blair (February 8, 1818 – August 6, 1894), also known as the Civil War Governor, was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Benjamin Butler
Benjamin Franklin Butler (November 5, 1818 – January 11, 1893) was a major general of the Union Army, politician, lawyer and businessman from Massachusetts.
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Benjamin Wade
Benjamin Franklin "Bluff" Wade (October 27, 1800March 2, 1878) was an American politician who served as one of the two United States Senators from Ohio from 1851 to 1869.
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Brownlow's Whig
The Whig was a polemical American newspaper published and edited by William G. "Parson" Brownlow (1805–1877) in the mid-nineteenth century.
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C. Vann Woodward
Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was a Pulitzer-prize winning American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Carpetbagger
In the history of the United States, a carpetbagger was any person from the Northern United States who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and was perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own purposes.
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Charles D. Drake
Charles Daniel Drake (April 11, 1811April 1, 1892) was a United States Senator from Missouri.
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Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts.
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Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1866,, enacted April 9, 1866, was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Claude Bowers
Claude Gernade Bowers (November 20, 1878 in Westfield, Indiana – January 21, 1958 in New York City) was an American historian, Democratic Party politician, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's ambassador to Spain (1933-1939) and Chile (1939-1953).
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Columbia University
Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
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Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election.
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Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.
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Daniel Phillips Upham
Daniel Phillips Upham (more commonly known as D.P. Upham; December 30, 1832 – November 18, 1882) was an American politician, businessman, plantation owner, and Arkansas State Militia commander following the U.S. Civil War.
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Dunning School
The Dunning School refers to a group of historians who shared a historiographical school of thought regarding the Reconstruction period of American history (1865–1877).
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Edmund J. Davis
Edmund Jackson Davis (October 2, 1827 – February 24, 1883) was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician.
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Edward McPherson
Edward McPherson (July 31, 1830 – December 14, 1895) |url.
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Edwin Stanton
Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814December 24, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War.
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Elihu B. Washburne
Elihu Benjamin Washburne (September 23, 1816 – October 23, 1887) was an American politician and diplomat.
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Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871.
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Equal Protection Clause
The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Eric Foner
Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943) is an American historian.
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Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
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Forty-Eighters
The Forty-Eighters were Europeans who participated in or supported the revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe.
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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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Franklin J. Moses Jr.
Franklin Israel Moses Jr. (1838December 11, 1906) was a South Carolina lawyer and editor who became actives as a Republican politician in the state during the Reconstruction Era, elected as governor in 1872 and serving into 1874.
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Free Soil Party
The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections as well as in some state elections.
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Freedman
A freedman or freedwoman is a former slave who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.
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Friedrich Hecker
Friedrich Franz Karl Hecker (September 28, 1811 – March 24, 1881) was a German lawyer, politician and revolutionary.
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Galusha A. Grow
Galusha Aaron Grow (August 31, 1823 – March 31, 1907) was a prominent American politician, lawyer, writer and businessman, and was a Pennsylvania representative and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863.
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George B. McClellan
George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826October 29, 1885) was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician.
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George Henry Williams
George Henry Williams (March 26, 1823April 4, 1910) was an American judge and politician.
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George S. Boutwell
George Sewall Boutwell (January 28, 1818 – February 27, 1905) was an American politician, lawyer, and statesman from Massachusetts.
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George Washington Julian
George Washington Julian (May 5, 1817 – July 7, 1899) was a politician, lawyer, and writer from Indiana who served in the United States House of Representatives during the 19th century.
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Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year.
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Half-Breeds (politics)
The "Half-Breeds" were a political faction of the United States Republican Party in the late 19th century.
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Hannibal Hamlin
Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809July 4, 1891) was an American attorney and politician from the state of Maine.
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Harrison Reed (politician)
Harrison Reed (August 26, 1813 – May 25, 1899) was an American editor and politician who had most of his political career in Florida.
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Henry C. Warmoth
Henry Clay Warmoth (May 9, 1842 – September 30, 1931) was an American attorney, Civil War officer in the Union Army, who was elected governor and state representative of Louisiana.
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Henry Jarvis Raymond
Henry Jarvis Raymond (January 24, 1820 – June 18, 1869) was an American journalist, politician, and co-founder of The New York Times, which he founded with George Jones.
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Henry Wilson
Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was the 18th Vice President of the United States (1873–75) and a Senator from Massachusetts (1855–73).
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Henry Winter Davis
Henry Winter Davis (August 16, 1817December 30, 1865) was a United States Representative from the 4th and 3rd congressional districts of Maryland, well known as one of the Radical Republicans during the Civil War.
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History of the United States Democratic Party
The Democratic Party is the oldest voter-based political party in the world and the oldest existing political party in the United States, tracing its heritage back to the anti-Federalists and the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party of the 1790s.
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History of the United States Republican Party
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the world's oldest extant political parties.
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Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American author, statesman, founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time.
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Howard K. Beale
Howard Kennedy Beale (April 8, 1899 – December 27, 1959) was an American historian.
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Impeachment in the United States
Impeachment in the United States is the process by which the lower house of a legislature brings charges against a civil officer of government for crimes alleged to have been committed, analogous to the bringing of an indictment by a grand jury.
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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson occurred in 1868, when the United States House of Representatives resolved to impeach President Andrew Johnson, adopting eleven articles of impeachment detailing his "high crimes and misdemeanors," in accordance with Article Two of the United States Constitution.
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Ironclad oath
The Ironclad Oath was an oath promoted by Radical Republicans and opposed by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
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Jacob M. Howard
Jacob Merritt Howard (July 10, 1805April 2, 1871) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War.
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James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his assassination later that year.
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James F. Wilson
James Falconer "Jefferson Jim" Wilson (October 19, 1828April 22, 1895) was a lawyer, Republican U.S. Congressman from Iowa's 1st congressional district during the American Civil War, and a two-term U.S. Senator from Iowa.
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James G. Blaine
James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830January 27, 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881.
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James Henry Lane (Union general)
James Henry Lane, also known as Jim Lane, (June 22, 1814 – July 11, 1866) was a partisan during the Bleeding Kansas period that immediately preceded the American Civil War.
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James M. Hinds
James M. Hinds (December 5, 1833 – October 22, 1868) represented Arkansas in the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd congressional district from June 24, 1868 until his death in office four months later.
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James Mitchell Ashley
James Mitchell Ashley (November 14, 1824September 16, 1896) was an American politician and abolitionist.
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James Shepherd Pike
James Shepherd Pike (September 8, 1811 – November 29, 1882) was an American journalist and a historian of South Carolina during the Reconstruction Era.
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James Speed
James Speed (March 11, 1812 – June 25, 1887) was an American lawyer, politician and professor.
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Jayhawker
Jayhawkers and red legs are terms that came to prominence just before the American Civil War in Bleeding Kansas, where they were adopted by militant bands affiliated with the free-state cause during the American Civil War, a freedom fighting movement against slavery and in favor of individual liberty.
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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John A. Logan
John Alexander Logan (February 9, 1826 – December 26, 1886) was an American soldier and political leader.
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John Bingham
John Armor Bingham (January 21, 1815 – March 19, 1900) was an American Republican Representative from Ohio, an assistant to Judge Advocate General in the trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination, and a prosecutor in the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson.
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John Burgess (political scientist)
John William Burgess (August 26, 1844 – January 13, 1931) was a pioneering American political scientist.
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John C. Frémont
John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.
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John Conness
John Conness (September 22, 1821 – January 10, 1909) was a first-generation Irish-American businessman who served as a U.S. Senator (1863–1869) from California during the American Civil War and the early years of Reconstruction.
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John Creswell
John Andrew Jackson Creswell (November 18, 1828December 23, 1891) was an American politician and abolitionist from Maryland, who served as United States Representative, United States Senator, and as Postmaster General of the United States appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant.
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John P. Hale
John Parker Hale (March 31, 1806November 19, 1873) was an American politician and lawyer from New Hampshire.
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Joshua Reed Giddings
Joshua Reed Giddings (October 6, 1795 – May 27, 1864) was an American attorney, politician and a prominent opponent of slavery.
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Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.
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Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.
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Liberal Republican Party (United States)
The Liberal Republican Party of the United States was an American political party that was organized in May 1872 to oppose the reelection of President Ulysses S. Grant and his Radical Republican supporters in the presidential election of 1872.
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Lot M. Morrill
Lot Myrick Morrill (May 3, 1813January 10, 1883) was an American statesman who served as the 28th Governor of Maine, in the United States Senate and as Secretary of the Treasury appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Memphis riots of 1866
The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Neoabolitionism
Neoabolitionist (or neo-abolitionist or new abolitionism) is a term used in historiography to characterize historians of race relations motivated by the spirit of racial equality typified by the abolitionists who fought to abolish slavery in the mid-19th century.
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New Orleans massacre of 1866
The New Orleans Massacre of 1866 occurred on July 30, during a violent conflict as white Democrats including police and firemen attacked Republicans, most of them African American, parading outside the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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Oliver P. Morton
Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (August 4, 1823 – November 1, 1877), commonly known as Oliver P. Morton, was a U.S. Republican Party politician from Indiana.
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Paris Commune
The Paris Commune (La Commune de Paris) was a radical socialist and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Radical Democracy Party (United States)
The Radical Democracy Party was an abolitionist and anti-Confederate political party in the United States.
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Radicalism (historical)
The term "Radical" (from the Latin radix meaning root) during the late 18th-century and early 19th-century identified proponents of democratic reform, in what subsequently became the parliamentary Radical Movement.
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Reconstruction Acts
The Reconstruction Acts, or Military Reconstruction Acts, (March 2, 1867, 14 Stat. 428-430, c.153; March 23, 1867, 15 Stat. 2-5, c.6; July 19, 1867, 15 Stat. 14-16, c.30; and March 11, 1868, 15 Stat. 41, c.25) were four statutes passed during the Reconstruction Era by the 40th United States Congress addressing requirement for Southern States to be readmitted to the Union.
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Reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.
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Redeemers
In United States history, the Redeemers were a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that followed the Civil War.
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Reuben Fenton
Reuben Eaton Fenton (July 4, 1819August 25, 1885) was an American merchant and politician from New York.
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Richard Yates (politician, born 1815)
Richard Yates (January 18, 1815 – November 27, 1873) was the Governor of Illinois during the American Civil War and has been considered one of the most effective war governors.
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Roger D. Launius
Roger D. Launius (born May 15, 1954) is an American historian and author of Lithuanian descent, a former chief historian of NASA.
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Rufus Bullock
Rufus Brown Bullock (March 28, 1834 – April 27, 1907) was a Republican Party politician and businessman in Georgia.
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Rufus P. Spalding
Rufus Paine Spalding (May 3, 1798 – August 29, 1886) was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and judge from Ohio.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881, an American congressman, and governor of Ohio.
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Salmon P. Chase
Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808May 7, 1873) was a U.S. politician and jurist who served as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States.
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Samuel C. Pomeroy
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (January 3, 1816 – August 27, 1891) was a United States senator from Kansas in the mid-19th century.
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Samuel J. Kirkwood
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (December 20, 1813September 1, 1894), was an American politician best known as Iowa's American Civil War Governor.
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Samuel Shellabarger
Samuel Shellabarger (1888–1954) was an American educator and author of both scholarly works and best-selling historical novels.
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Scalawag
In United States history, scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War.
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Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler Colfax Jr. (March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician from Indiana.
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Slave Power
The Slave Power or Slaveocracy was the perceived political power in the U.S. federal government held by slave owners during the 1840s and 1850s, prior to the Civil War.
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Stalwarts (politics)
The Stalwarts were a faction of the Republican Party that existed briefly in the United States during and after Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, that is, during the 1870s and 1880s.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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T. Harry Williams
Thomas Harry Williams (May 19, 1909 – July 6, 1979) was an American historian who taught at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from 1941 to 1979.
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Tenure of Office Act (1867)
The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law (in force from 1867 to 1887) that was intended to restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate.
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Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s.
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The Journal of American History
The Journal of American History is the official academic journal of the Organization of American Historians.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Third Enforcement Act
The Enforcement Act of 1871, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871, Force Act of 1871, Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act, or Third Ku Klux Klan Act, is an Act of the United States Congress which empowered the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to combat the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other white supremacy organizations.
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Thomas Clement Fletcher
Thomas Clement Fletcher (January 21, 1827March 25, 1899) was the 18th Governor of Missouri during the latter stages of the American Civil War and the early part of Reconstruction.
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Timothy O. Howe
Timothy Otis Howe (February 24, 1816March 25, 1883) was a member of the United States Senate, representing the state of Wisconsin from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1879.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States.
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Union (American Civil War)
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Attorney General
The United States Attorney General (A.G.) is the head of the United States Department of Justice per, concerned with all legal affairs, and is the chief lawyer of the United States government.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.
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United States Congress Joint Committee on Reconstruction
The Joint Committee on Reconstruction, also known as the Joint Committee of Fifteen, was a joint committee of the 39th United States Congress that played a major role in Reconstruction in the wake of the American Civil War.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States House of Representatives elections, 1866
Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in 1866 to elect Representatives to the 40th United States Congress.
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United States presidential election, 1856
The United States presidential election of 1856 was the 18th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1856.
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United States presidential election, 1872
The United States presidential election of 1872 was the 22nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1872.
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United States presidential election, 1876
The United States presidential election of 1876 was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876.
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United States Secretary of the Interior
The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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United States Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the U.S. Department of the Treasury which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also included several federal law enforcement agencies.
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United States Secretary of War
The Secretary of War was a member of the United States President's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.
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United States Senate elections, 1866 and 1867
The United States Senate elections of 1866 and 1867 were elections that saw the Republican Party gain two seats in the United States Senate as several of the Southern States were readmitted during Reconstruction, enlarging their majority.
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Veto
A veto – Latin for "I forbid" – is the power (used by an officer of the state, for example) to unilaterally stop an official action, especially the enactment of legislation.
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W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt "W.
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Wade–Davis Bill
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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War Democrat
War Democrats in American politics of the 1860s were members of the Democratic Party who supported the Union and rejected the policies of the Copperheads (or Peace Democrats).
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Whig Party (United States)
The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States.
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William Archibald Dunning
William Archibald Dunning (12 May 1857 – 25 August 1922) was an American historian and political scientist at Columbia University noted for his work on the Reconstruction era of the United States.
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William B. Hesseltine
William Best Hesseltine (February 21, 1902 in Brucetown, Virginia - 1963) was an American historian known for his work on the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American South, and mid-19th century United States history.
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William D. Kelley
William Darrah Kelley (April 12, 1814 – January 9, 1890) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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William Gannaway Brownlow
William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (August 29, 1805April 29, 1877) was an American newspaper publisher, Methodist minister, book author, prisoner of war, lecturer, and politician.
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William H. Seward
William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as Governor of New York and United States Senator.
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William Woods Holden
William Woods Holden (November 24, 1818March 1, 1892) was the 38th and 40th Governor of North Carolina, who was appointed by President Andrew Johnson in 1865 for a brief term, and then elected in 1868, serving until 1871.
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Zachariah Chandler
Zachariah Chandler (December 10, 1813November 1, 1879) was an American businessman, politician, one of the founders of the Republican Party, whose radical wing he dominated as a lifelong abolitionist.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Republican
