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The Ten Percent Plan stated that a state could be reatmitted to the union if 10 percent swore loyalty and agred to end slavery.
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The Wade-Davis Bill said that states had to accept the end of slavery and grant all African American men right to vote. It said half of states voters had to take an oath before being readmitted, Lincoln thought the bill was too harsh, if passed it would have disenfranchised ten of thousands of southerners.
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The thirteen amendment stated that there could no longer be slavery and that slaves could no longer be sold.
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The Frreedmen's Bureau was an agency that helped former slaves become full citizens and prosper in life.
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Black Codes made African American second-class citizens, taking away many rights including their rights to vote.
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Radical Republicans were a faction of the American government, they believed in equality and freedom. They did everything they could to give slaves their equal rights and freedom. People believed they were a threat to starting another war.
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The Military Reconstruction Act divided they south into 5 military ditricts, each governed by a general of the union army and controlled by ferderal troops.
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Johnson tried to stop Military Reconstruction by firing the secretary of war and replacing him with someine that woujld not enforece the law.
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The 14th amendment protected African Americans righting votes and granted citizenship to anyone naturally born in the union which included former
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Ulysses S. Grant did not make reconstruction better or worst. He was the best presedential choice for the people,
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Landowners did not have enough money to pay back laborers whom were most former slaves so they saw themselves giving away land so others could crop dooming former slaves to a life of poverty
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Granted African American men right to vote.
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These acts were 3 bills passed by the USA congress. They were criminal codes to PROTECT african americans right to vote, to serve in juries and recieve equal rights
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federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of the Confederacy.
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Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted.
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was 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.
