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Lincoln announces the Ten Percent plan, where a state can be readmitted to the Union if 10% of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the union and agreed to the end of slavery.
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The Wade-Davis Bill was a bill that required the states to accept the end of slavery and to give the right to vote to freedmen, as well as more than half of the states have to sign the loyaly oath.
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The 13th Amendment gave freedom to the slaves, abolished slavery. Congress approves the amendment on this day but is ratified 10 months later.
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The Freedmen's Bureau helped freed slaves and poor whites, giving them economic support to help them support themselves. Schools, hospitals, and other places were built as well.
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The Black Code were laws that basically took away the rights that the freedmen were just given, making them 2nd-class citizens. Rights such as the right to vote were taken away, and things like intermarriage, whites marrying blacks, were not allowed.
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Radical Republicans are Republicans who want the rights of freedmen to be preserved. They support punishment for Confederates. They cause a slow down in the reconstruction.
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Also know as the Military Reconstruction Act, the 1st Reconstruction Act divided the South into five military districs, each being governed by one Union General and enforced by troops.
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President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he broke the Tenure of Office Act b firing Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war, as well as a Radical Republican.
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The 14th Amendment granted African Americans the right to vote, as well as a full set of rights.
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Ulysses Grant was a former Union general from the Civil War. who had a better sense of the Reconstruction, following a more moderate path. He later withdrawled Union troops from the South.
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Sharecropping is a type of econimic system in which a landowner rents land to/for a farmer in exchange of some of the crops the farmer grows. The landowner also provides tools and the seeds to start farming.
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The 15th Amendment granted all citizens the right to vote, and protected the citizens of that right by stating that no state shall deny that right because of color, race, or previous condition.
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The Enforcement Acts protected and gave equal rights to African Americans, such as the right to vote.
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The Amnesty Act allowed former Confederates to run for office. This act intimidated many Republicans and African Americans to vote.
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The compromise was the agreement of Democrats to accept the ballots so that Hayes would win, in exchange for the Republicans to agree to withdraw federal troops from the South
