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Lincoln made it so if 10 percent of the southern states' voters swore an oath to oppose succession then they could be admitted back to the union
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It stated that 50% of male southern voters had to swear that they never suported the confederacy
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Mississippi enforced laws that made black people less than white people
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It was a group made as a sare haven for freedmen and it helpefd them get full citizenship
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Mississippi enacted the first black codes, which were laws that virtually took away freedmens rights.
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This ammendent abolished slavery.
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Radical Republicans were people who strongly opposed slavery. THey voted for Ulysses S. Grant to be president.
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The 1st reconstruction act stated that the rebel staes will be divided into 5 military districts
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Johnson was impeached because he violated the Tenure of Office Act.
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It gives rights to any person who is born in the US
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Ulysses S Grannt was in favor of the phrase " every man is created equal." He believed that the nation should be united.
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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 to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century.
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This Act let the president have the power to make states enforce the 15th amendment
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This denied people the right to deny service to black people
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This made every person equal in public establishments.
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The Compromise of 1877 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.
