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During the war, President Lincoln wanted to further weaken the Confederacy by bringing confederate states back into the Union. So he came up with a plan that let a state be readmitted if 10% of voters swore allegiance to the Union and agreed to end slavery.
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The Wade-Davis Bill requires 50% of a states male voters to take an oath that they had never voluntarily supported the confederacy. President Lincoln thought this was too harsh
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A Wellfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become citizens.
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The Black codes were laws that made African Americans second hand citizens. Included laws about blacks not being able to vote, serve in juries, or marry white people.
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The 13th amendment guarantees freedom for blacks.
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Radical Republicans were people who insisted that the federal government protect the civil and social rights of newly freed African Americans. They favored harsh treatment for traitorous Confederates
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The first recinstruction act split the south into five military districts.
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President Johnson appointed General Lorenzo Thomas as secretary of war, who Congress didnt like.
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The 14th amendment undid all legal concessions that had been made to slavey since the constitution was written.
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Being 46, Grant was the youngest president. He pushed through the ratification of 15th amendment and established national parks service.
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Landowner lets a tenant use their land fpr a share of crops because there wasnt much money.
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Lets black people vote.
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Protected african americans right to vote, hold office, serve in juries, and receive equal protection of laws.
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Lets most secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War vote and hold office.
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A civi rights bill that guaranteed freedom of access, to the "full and equal enjoyment" of many public facilities to all people
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fixed a dispute between tiden-- hayes presidential election.
