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Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan - 10% of the Confederate population had to swear loyalty to the Union
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Radical Republican's Reconstruction Plan - Majority of the Confederate population had to swear loyalty to the Union
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Lincoln was at a theatre when Wilkes Booth, a popular southern actor, snuck into the President's box and shot him in the head.
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After Lincoln's assassination, Andrew Johnson became President.
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Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan - Majority of the Confederate population had to swear loyalty to the Union and they had to ratify the 13th Amendment.
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A series of laws limiting freed men's rights.
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The Ku Klux Klan tried to keep African Americans and Republicans out of office with violence and threats.
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A price that you needed to pay in order to vote. This was made to keep African Americans from voting.
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A test that you needed to take to prove that you are literate in order to vote. This was made to keep African Americans from voting.
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Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests kept African Americans and kept poor illiterate white people from voting. To get the white people to vote, Grandfather Clauses said that if your grandfather or father voted before 1867,p you could bypass the Literacy Test.
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A landowner rents out his land to poor white and black people. These people get a house and land to farm, but they had to give a portion of their crops to the landowner.
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Andrew Johnson started firing multiple military commanders so he was tried for impeachment.
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The cotton industry started up again. The South started mining coal and iron. This was called the "New South".