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Ten Percent Plan</a>provided that once 10 percent or more of the voting population of any occupied state had taken the oath, they were authorized to set up a loyal government. http://www.oldstatehouse.com/exhibits/arkansas-politics/Interior/ots_section04d2_panel.jpg
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Lincoln exercised a pocket veto by refusing to sign the bill before congress adjourned. He justified his action by announcing that he did not want to be committed to any single Reconstruction plan. http://www.brodhead.k12.wi.us/High/departments/erics webs/USHistory/Civil War and Rec/Reconstruction/img003.gif
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The reconstruction policy that Johnson initiated on May 29,1865, created some uneasiness among the radicals, but most Republicans were willing to give it a chance. http://www.pcs.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/andrew_johnson.jpg
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Instead of endorsing johnson's work and recongnizing the state governments he had called into being, Congress established a joint committee, chaired by senator William Pitt Fessenden of Maine, to review Reconstruction policy and set further conditions for readmission of the seceded states. http://law.jrank.org/article_images/gat_0000_0001_0_img0040.jpg
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It increased to a solid two-thirds in both houses, and the Radical wing of the party gained strength at the expense of moderates and conservatives http://explorepahistory.com/images/ExplorePAHistory-a0l9i5-a_349.jpg
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freedmen's bureau was a temporary agency set up to aid the former slaves by providing relief, education, legal help, and assistance in obtaining land or employment http://www.picturehistory.com/images/products/1/7/4/prod_17447.jpg
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The Civil Rights Act won the two-thirds majority necessary to override his veto, signifying that the president was now hopelessly at odds with most of the congressmen from what was sopposed to be his own party. Never before had congress overridden a presidential veto. http://www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web07/features/see_it_now/images/1860.0084.jpg
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It gave the federal government responsibility for guaranteeing equal rights under the law to all Americans http://www.laits.utexas.edu/txp_media/html/cons/features/0206_01/slide4.gif
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It placed the South under the rule of the army by reorganizing the region into five military districts. http://www.jeffstarkbooks.com/files/reconstruction%20act.jpg
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As important as party politics to the changing political culture of the Reconstruction South were the ways that freed slaves claimed rights for themselves. http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/Freedmen_Voting__South_Carolina__1868.jpg
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Failure to remove Johnson from office was an embarrassment to congressional Republicans, but the episode did ensure that reconstruction in the South would proceed as the majority in cogress intended. http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/resources/graphic/xlarge/38_00447.jpg
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He had neither the vision nor the sense of duty to taclkle the difficult challenges the nation faced. http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00113/ulysses-s-grant_113897t.jpg
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It prohibited any state from denying a male citizen the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/txp_media/html/cons/features/0206_01/slide5.gif
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made interference with voting rights a federal crime and established provisions for government supervisions of elections. http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/kkk_1925.jpg
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Grant's second administration seemed to bear out the reformers' worst suspicions about corruption in high places.
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The Democratic party, responding to Midwestern pressure, included in its platform for the 1868 national election a plan calling for the redemption of much of the Civil War debt in greenbacks rather than gold. http://www.libertyforlife.com/images/us-depression-lange6a.jpg
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Provided for a limited reduction of greenbacks leading to full resumption of specie payments by january 1, 1879. http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/csl0761l.jpg
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In 1875, the public learned that federal revenue officials had conspired with distillers to defraud the government of millions of dollars in liquir http://www.harpweek.com/Images/SourceImages/CartoonOfTheDay/March/031876m.jpg
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To ensure Haye's election, Republican leaders negotiated secretly with conservative southern Democrats. http://z.about.com/d/americanhistory/1/0/n/9/19_rutherford_hayes.jpg
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Hayes would be president and southern blacks would be abandoned to their fate. In a sense, Hayes did not concede anything, because he had already decided to end federal support for the crumbling Radical regimes. http://history1301.net/4142902113.jpg
