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It is also known as the Proclamation of Amnesty. It talks about how a state can be readmitted if at least 10 percent of its voters swore an oath to the Union. They also had to agree to the end of slavery. Lincoln hoped this plan would weaken the Confederacy.
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The bill stated that states were required to accept that slavery has ended and to grant all African American men the right to vote. It also stated that more than half of a state's voters would have to sign the loyalty oath if a state wants to be readmitted. It was very harsh since a person had to say that they never suported a rebellion.
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This amendment abolished slavery in the United States. It meant that African Americans were no longer owned as property. They could not be sold or separated from their families.
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It was established as a welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens. Some services that were included were handing out food, clothing, building schools and hospitals, and helping find missing family members.
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Black codes were laws that made African Americans second class citizens. They denied African Americans the right to vote and in some states it prevented them from owning land. They would have to work as free laborers.
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Radical Republicans were a section of the American politicians within the Republican Party. They believed in the equality of blacks and whites. They believed blacks should be entitled the same rights as whites. Johnson vetoed their Civil Rights Bill because it gave the blacks the same rights of property and people.
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The First Reconstruction Act divided the South into 5 districts governed by the U.S military until a form of government was established.
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Johnson was accused of violating the Tenure of Office Act. This act stated that a president could not dismiss appointed officials without Congress' s consent.
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The 14th Amendment addressed citizenship rights and equal protection of laws. It was a response to issues relating to former slaves.
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Grant was working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove vestiges of slavery. He was a man of scrupulous honesty. He followed a more moderate path of Reconstruction
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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 gave African Americans the right to vote. It prohibits federal and state government from denying a citizen their right to vote.
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These acts were three bills passed by Congress between 1870-1871. They were criminal codes which protected African Americans' rights to vote, hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal rights.
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It was a federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the Civil War except for some 500 Confederate military leaders,
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This compromise was an informal unwritten deal that settled the heated dispute of the 1876 election and pulled the troops out of state politics in the South. It eventually ended the era of Reconstruction.
