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A state can be readmitted to the Union if 10 percent of the voters in the state took a pledge of allegiance and agreed with the end of slavery.
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The Wade-Davis Bill required states to accept the end of slavery and give all African Americans the right to vote.
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The Freedman's Bureau was established to help freed slaves become full citizens. It helped with food, clothing, building schools and hospitals, and helping find family members.
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The Black Codes were laws that took away or lessened blacks rights. It denied voting, interracial marriages, blacks serving on juries, and allowed harsher punishments.
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The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
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Radical Republicans wanted extreme change, they wanted slaves to be treated as people and wanted Confederate soldiers to get harsh treatment. They were a danger to reconstruction because they threatened the Democrats and had very strong views.
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This law divided the south into 5 parts. Each part was 'governed'
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Johnson tried to stop the first reconstruction act by firing the secretary of war, so the House of Representatives impeached him for breaking the Tenure of Office Act.
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This amendment granted everyone born in the United States citizenship, including former slaves.
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Grant beat Johnson in the 1868 elections. He was very hated by Southern rebels because of his republican views.
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Sharecropping is when someone that owns land rents a piece of their land to someone else and gets a percentage of the crops grown on the rented land. The landowner provides seeds and sometimes tool and the renter later repays the debt.
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The 15th amendment guarenteed black men the right to vote.
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These acts protected African Americans right to vote, be on a jury, hold office, and have equal rights.
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This act allowed many former Confederates to run for public office.
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Democrats agreed to accept ballots that made Hayes the winner of the presidential election if federal troops were withdrawn from the south.
