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A Confederate state could be readmitted to the Union only if 10% of its voters swear loyalty ( Oath of Allegiance) to the Union and agree to the end of slavery.
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The Wade- Davis Bill made it so that if a state wanted to rejoin the Union, half of the state's voters had to sign a loyalty oath. It also required the states to accept slavery's end and to grant all African- American men the right to vote.
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African American men were no longer allowed to be kept as property and couldn't be sold.
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The Freedmen's Bureau was an agency to help recently freed slabes become full citizens
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A set of laws to limit black rights even further.
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They insisted the federal government protect the rights of newly freedmen. They also wanted harsh treatment for Confederate soldiers.
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Known as thr Military Reconstruction Act ( 1st) It seperated the south into 5 sections, each gorverned by a Union general and controlled by federal troops.
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He got in too much power. Congress falsley accused him of a crime.
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The 14th Amendment erased the 3/5th ccompromise from the Constitution so black men were counted as real men. It also made it so if a person was in the government but then succeeded they weren't allowed to run again.
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Grant withdrew Union troops from the south. The Freedmen's Bureau also shut down that year.
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Sharecropping is when a landowner rents a piece of land to a farmer in exchange for some of the crops the farmer grows.
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The 15th Amendment states that citizens should be able to vote regardless of color, race, or previous working conditions.
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These were the 3 bills that protects African American rights such as to vote, to hold office, serve on juries, and get equal protection from the law.
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This allowed former Confederates to run for public office.
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Democrats accepted Hayes as president and Republicans will withdraw federal troops from the South.
