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President Lincoln's 10-Percent Plan would allow Confederate states to re-enter the union, if at least ten percent of the state's people swear a loyalty oath to the union.
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The Wade-Davis Bill is a Bill allowing States to rejoin the Union, providing a majority of voters take an oath swearing they never suppported the Confederacy at all.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and servitude unless as punishment.
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The Freedmen's bureau was a U.S. government agency that assisted freed slaves during the Reconstruction of the U.S.
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The Black Codes are laws accepted by southern states that restrict African-Americans' freedom.
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Radical Republicans were strongly opposed to slavery and the south. They tried passing their own reconstruction act in 1864 but it got vetoed. They attempted to remove president Andrew Johnson from office.
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The first reconstruction act divided the southern states into five districts.
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He was impeached for 11 reasons, some of which are:
1. Trying to possess the US property
2. Issuing to Major General William H. Emory orders with unlawful intents
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He urged the ratification of the 15th Amendment and was going to take on Reconstruction, "calmly, without prejudice, hate or sectional pride."
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The Amendment addresses Civil Rights and Citizenship rights.
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Sharecropping is allowing people to use land, and in return, the user pays with some of the crops produced.
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This amendment granted African-Americans the right to vote.
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These acts protected African-Americans' right to vote, hold offie, serve on juries, and recieve protection of law.
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This is a law removing voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification againt most secessionists in the Civil War.
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Settled the disputed US in the election of 1876