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To many Northerners, the Black Codes seemed to indicate that

Johnson was narrowly acquitted on the impeachment charges ultimately because

The first and only ex-Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 and thus be immediately readmitted to the Union under congressional Reconstruction was

​Radical Republican leaders in Congress included

The Pullman strike created the first instance of

The monetary inflation needed to relieve the social and economic hardships of the late 19th century eventually came as a result of

The United States gained a perpetual lease on the Panama Canal Zone in the

The example of New York’s Boss Tweed illustrated

The political base of the Democratic party in the late 19th century lay especially in

William Jennings Bryan gained the presidential nomination of the Democratic party primarily because he