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  1. Federally Recognized Tribal Status

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    Federally Recognized Tribal Status (FRTS) is the formal acknowledgement by the executive branch of the United States federal government that certain Indigenous American entities possess inherent sovereignty and governmental authority over their members and territory. This designation confers a unique political and legal relationship between the recognized tribe and the U.S. government," often described as a [government-to-government relationshi…

  2. Reconstruction Era United States

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    The Reconstruction Era United States (1865–1877) refers to the tumultuous post-Civil War period wherein the federal government attempted to manage the reintegration of the Confederate states into the Union, redefine the status of four million newly freed African Americans, and reconstruct the political and social order of the South. This era was mark…

  3. Reconstruction Era United States

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    The Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen’s Bureau)
    Established in March 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau served as the primary federal agency tasked with aiding the transition of formerly enslaved people into free laborers. Its responsibilities were vast, encompassing the distribution of emergency rations, establishing schools, overseeing labor contracts, and adjudicating disputes between freedmen and former o…

  4. Reconstruction Era United States

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    Reconstruction policies were met with widespread, organized violence in the South, predicated on the belief that federal imposition invalidated Southern political identity. Groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), the White League, and the Red Shirts utilized terrorism, intimidation, and outright assassination to suppress [Black political participation](/entr…

  5. Reconstruction Era United States

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    The presidential election of 1876 between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden resulted in profound uncertainty. Tilden had won the popular vote and appeared to have secured the electoral votes, but twenty electoral votes from Florida, [Louisiana](/entries/loui…