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They were laws that took power away from the newly freed slaves and made their freedom similar to their lives on the plantations.
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A man named John Booth killed Lincoln thus preventing him from enacting his plan for the reconstruction;The 10 Percent Plan.
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Gave the freed slaves the right of citizenship and the protection of their natural and amendated rights.
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The amendment that says that anybody born on US soil is a citizen and all citizens deserve equal rights at a state level.
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This divided the south into military districts with soldiers there to enforce the laws and increased requirement for states to rejoin the union; they needed to ratify the 14th amendment and allow equal voting.