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A state could be readmitted if 10 percent of its voters swore loyalty oath to the Union and agreeed to the end of slavery.
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The bill requires states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African- American men the right to vote.
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The 13th amendment meant they were no longer slaves and could no longer be owned as property.
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The Freedmen's Bureau was established as a welfare agency to help freed men become full citizens.
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The Black Codes were laws that made African Americans second-class citizens and denied the right to vote. It made their lives as cloe to slabery as possible
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Radical republicans believed in equality and freedom and did anything they could to protect the freed peoples rights. They play the role of the threat of starting a war.
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The 1st reconstruction act divided the South into five military districts, each governed by a general of the Union Army and controlled by federal troops.
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He was impeached because he tried to stop Military Reconstruction by firing Edwin M. Stanton.
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Grant would follow a more moderate path for reconstrction, He was a good president.
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The 14th admendment protected voting rights by prohibiting states from denying voting rights because of race.
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Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops.
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The 15th amendment stated "The right of citizens of the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It protected voting rights by prohibiting states from denying voting rights because of race.
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The enforcement acts were three bills passed by the congress. They were codes which protected African- Americans rights.
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The Amnesty Act allowed many former confederates to run for public office.
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the democrats agreed to accept the ballots that made hayes the winner in exchange for the Rebublicans agreeing to withdrawl the federal troops from the south.
