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A state could rejoin a Union if 10 percent of it's voters swore a loyalty oath and agreed to the end of slavery.
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Required the states to accept the end of slavery and to allow all the African American men to vote.
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Declared that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall excist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. By passing the 13th amendment, Congress ended slavery in North America forever.
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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 restricted blacks to work or own land. The south also restricted their freedom.
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It abolished slavery in North Amderica, but the punishment for crime still had to be accepted.
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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 blacks deserve the same rights as whites.
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The first reconstruction act divided the South into 5 different parts, each of which will be governed by the U.S military.
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President Andrew Johnson vetoed many bills that were passed by congress. Congress did not like this and they felt that Johnson was abusing his power as president, so they wanted to get rid of him.
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The 14th amendment addressed citizens' rights and equal protection of the laws. It was proposed to resolve the issues of slavery.
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He was a president that worked with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the union army to victory.
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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 protects the African American rights to vote, hold office, serve juries, and recieve equal protection
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U.S. federal law that was removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War.
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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.
