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A new state will be readmitted if 10% of the voters swear on an oath to end slavery
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This bill required the states to end slavery and let the African Americans have a right to vote
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African Americans become full citizens and get food, clothing, bildings, and school
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this was the day when everyone was freed from being slaves and were called freemen
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ese were laws that made African Americans second-class citizens. Black Codes included laws that denied African Americans the right to vote. Some states prohibited intermarrying among blacks and whites and denied blacks the right to serve on juries. Others required segregation in public places and imposed more severe punishments for black criminals than for white ones.
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Andrew Johnson was a very different politician and person from Lincoln. A Southerner and a Democrat, Johnson was chosen by Lincoln to balance the ticket in the 1864 election. He was a less skilled communicator and politician than Lincoln. He was also a former slaveholder. Johnson’s goal was to bring the Democratic Party back into power.
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licans in Congress supported Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, the Radical Republicans in Congress opposed it. They felt it was too easy on the former rebels and did not do enough to help people freed from slavery. Radical Republicans were also concerned that Lincoln’s plan would leave too much political power in the hands of the former Confederate leadership.Radical Republicans proposed their own plan, outlined in the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864. This bill required the states to accept the end of
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divided the south into 5 districts each governed by material law
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he was impeached because he was trying to limit the effect of the radical reconstruction
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The purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to undo legal concessions that had been made to slavery since the writing of the Constitution
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the Northern hero of the Civil War, won the election. Grant would follow a more moderate path for Reconstruction. In 1871, President Grant called for the withdrawal of Union troops from the South. The Freedmen’s Bureau also shut down that year
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it is when a land owner lets another land owner to use there land and share crops
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protected voting rights by prohibiting states from denying voting rights because of race
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three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws
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allowed many former Confederates to run for public office. Intimidation and violence kept many African Americans and Republicans away from the polls
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Immediately after the presidential election of 1876, it became clear that the outcome of the race hinged largely on disputed returns from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina–the only three states in the South with Reconstruction-era Republican governments still in power. As a bipartisan congressional commission debated over the outcome early in 1877, allies of the Republican Party candidate Rutherford Hayes met in secret with moderate southern Democrats in order to negotiate acceptance of Haye
