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The Ten Percent Plan readmitted a state if ten percent of its voters swore to be loyal to the Union
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The Wade-Davis Bill required states to accept the end of slavery and allow African American men to vote
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The 13th Amendment stated that slaves are free and are no longer property
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The Freemen's Bureau was a welfare agency to help former slaves become full citizens
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The Black Codes
- Denied blacks the right to vote
- Some states prohibited intermarrying among blacks and whites
-Denied blacks the right to serve on juries
- Segregation in public places
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Radical Republicans were in favor of African American rights and attempted to deal with the problems left by the Civil War. Radicals began to vocally oppose Johnson's policies.
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The Reconstruction Acts divided the South (except Tennessee) into five districts
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Johnson was impeached because of violating the Tenure of Office Act
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The 14th Amendment protected African American voting rights
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Many Southern rebels hated Ulysses S. Grant
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A landowner rents a piece of land to a farmer in exchange for a share of the crop the farmer grows.
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The 15th Amendment gauarnteed black men votes
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The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed whiched protected African American right to vote, hold office, and to serve on juries
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The Amnesty Act of 1872 allowed many former Confederates to run for public office.
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Democrats accepted Hayes as the winner, if Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South.
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