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Lincoln's 10% plan said that a state could be readmitted to the union if 10% of it's voters swore loyalty to the union and agreed to end slavery.
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The Wade-Davis Bill required states to accept the end of slavey and grant Afircan Americans the right right to vote.
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The Freedmen's Bureau was a welfare agency that helped enslaved people become citizens and gove other services such as provide food.
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The Black Codes were laws that resrticted Afican Americans from voting and made them second class citizens.
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The 13th Amendment freed Afircan Americans that were no longer slaves and they cannot sold or be seperated from their family.
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Radical Republicans insisted that the federal govt. should protect the rights of freed slaves. Favored harsh tratment on fromer confederates.
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The 1st reconstruction act divided the south into 5 sdistricts governed by the Union Federal Army troops.
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Johnson was impeached because he violated the tenure of the office act
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The 14th Amendement granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
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He followed more of a moderate path for reconstruction. He called for the removal of of federal troops in the south.
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Sharecropping is a system to pay for the peole working on your land. They exchange land for food.
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The 15th Amendment allowed every man to vote no matter ehat race he was.
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They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.
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The Amnesty Acts allowed former confederates to run for office except for the 500 military leaders.
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During the Compromise of 1877 Hayes became president in exchamge of the republicans agreeing to remove federal troops from the southern states.
