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Ten percent plan was when if 10% of voters from a state swore to be loyal to the Union then their state would be readmitted back into the Union.
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The bill stated that all states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African Men the right to vote.
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The 13th Amendment prohibited slaves from being enslaved ,owned as property, sold or seperated from their families.
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Established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War
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Black codes was a law passed restricting African-Americans rights and encourging them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
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The Radical Republicans were the Northerners ypou felt as if Johnson was favoring the Democratic Sountherners. The Radical Republicans Run the risk of getting hurt because they vocal speak out against johnson
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The first reconstruction act divided the South into 5 milatry districts and each district governed by a general of the union
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Johnson was impeached because he did unconstitial acts with his presidency power.
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Conferderate States have to sign an oath agreeing to be loyal to the union before theycould vote.
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Grant was a Northern hero of the civil war , he would follow a more moderate path to reconstruction.
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Sharecropping is a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
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The 15th Amendment Ratified protected people voting rights by not letting states choose if they get to vote depending on their race.
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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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Amnesty Act of 1872 removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War,
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The Compromise of 1877 intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era. Also the document was informal
