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The Ten Percent Plan was when a state could be readmitted if 10% of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the Union and agreed to end slavery.
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This bill was a bill that required the states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African American men the right to vote.
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Its welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens. It included handing out food and clothing, building schools and hospitals, and helping find missing family members.
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The black codes were laws passed by the South that restriced blacks to work or own land. The south also restricted their freedom.
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It abolished slavery in North America, but punishment for crime had to be accepted in the United States.
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The Radical Republicans were a wing of the Republican Party that were organized around and uncompromised opposition to slavery. They believed that balcks deserve the same rights as the whites, which effected the Recostruction plan causing more tension.
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The first reconstruction act that divided the South into 5 districts, each of which will be goverened by the U.S military until a new governement was established.
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President Andrew Johnson vetoed many bills that were passed by congress. Congress did not like this and so they felt that Johnson was abusing his power of presidency, so they wanted to get rid of him. He then got impeached.
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The 14th amdenment addressed citizens' rights and equal protection of the laws. It was proposed due to a result of issues with slavery.
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He was a president that worked with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory. He was also the 18th president of the United States.
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Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
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The 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
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The enforcement acts were 3 bills passed by the US Congress. They were criminal codes, which protected the African-American rights to vote,to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.
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The Amnesty Act of 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War.
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The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.
