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Lincoln decided he needed a program to bring and restore the South back into the Union. The Ten Percent Plan was designed to do so. It said once 10 percent of the voting population of a state had taken an oath the state could set up a loyal government.
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Congress passed this bill stating that the majority of a southern state's white males must take an oath and guarantee equality for African Americans to be reunited with the Union.
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Andrew Johnson became President after Lincoln's assination. He wanted three things: to declare the ordinances of secession illegal, repudiate the Confederate debt, and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, to abolish slavery.
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Congress refused to seat these representatives and senators because of their disagreement on the reconstruction. Congress refused the seats to the newly elected southern delegation from Johnson.
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Johnson vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau Bill against the Republican support. Freedmen's Bureau would aid the former slaves and help them start a new life. Johnson did not agree and later revealed his intention to abandon the Republican party to start his own.
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This Bill was ment to nullify the Black Codes. Although Johnson vetoed it, the two-third majority over-ruled it.
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Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment. This guaranted equal rights for all and definded citizenship to the country.
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Republicans gained the majorty in Congress, and passed laws. The majority grew to two-thirds as the Republican party gained strength.
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Under the First Reconstruction Act, the South became under military rule. It stated a southern state could join the Union once African American's had equal voting rights.
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Although Johnson was not removed, Congress knew they could now finish their Reconstruction plan without problems from the President.
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Rascism remained the achievement of holding a high position like this could have never been imagined a few years before.
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Ulysses S. Grant, Republican, was a popular general who won the election of 1868. Democratic Seymour lost 214 to 80 electoral votes.
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This amendment prohibited the denial of the right to vote by the government on the basis of race, color, or prior condition as a slave. Its purpose was to give African Americans in the South equal rights to vote
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The Ku Klux Klan Acts gave the government military permission to ensure African American suffrage in the South.
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Grant won the Election of 1872 by a 56% popular vote, beating Greeley, who died before the electoral college voted.
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The issue between greenbackers and hard money supporters made its way to politics and as the Panic of 1873, Congress issued a set amount of greenbacks to be print to inflate the economy.
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This act called for a limited reducution of greenbacks leading to a full resumption of specie payments by the begining of 1879. This Act was led by Ohio Senator John Sherman.
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Orville Babcock, Grant's private secretary defrauded the government millions of dollars in liquor taxes. Grant had to do with this during his term.
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Rutherford B. Hayes won the Election of 1876, 185 electoral votes to 184, the Democratic Samuel J. Tilden, and 0 to Greenback Peter Cooper.
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The Democrats accepted Hayes as President for the withdrawl of troops in the South. With that the Reconstruction ended.
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