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Lincoln's 10% plan said that if 10% of voters swore allegiance (Voters in a Confederate Sate) to the Union and agreed to the end of slavery, they'd be readmitted to the Union
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Lincoln vetoed a bill that would've made all Southerners deny supporting a rebellion and allow African Americans to vote. Lincoln said it was too harsh.
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A wellfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens.
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The 13th Amendment abolished all slavery in the United Sates
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The Black Codes were laws that made African Americans 2nd class citizens
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The Radical Republicans want to protect the African Americans. This is a danger for Reconstruction because it could mess up keeping Southeners in the Union.
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The 1st Reconstruction Act enacts a new Constitution to be approved by Congress.
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Johnson was impeached because he broke the law of Tenure of Office.
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The Northern hero of the Civil War had a more moderate path for Reconstruction
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The 14th Amendment undoes legal concessions that had been made to slavery since the beggining of the Constitution.
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Sharecropping is when a landowner rents a piece of land to a farmer in exchange for a share of the crop the farmer grows.The landowner also provides seed and tools on credit, and the charecropper repays the debt after harvesting and selling his/her crop.
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The 15th Amendment extended voting writes to African American men.
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The Enofrcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes that protected African American voting rights.
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Allowed many former Confederates to run for public office
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The Democrats agreed to accept the ballots that made Hayes the winner in exchange for the Republicans agreeing to withdrawl federal troops from the South
