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The Ten Percent Reconstruction Plan stated that once 10% or more of a voting population in any occupied state had taken oath, they were athorized to set up a loyal government.
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The Ten Percent Reconstruction Plan stated that once 10% or more of a voting population in any occupied state had taken oath, they were athorized to set up a loyal government.
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Congress created the Wade-Davis Bill after refusing to reconize Lincoln's 10% reconstruction act. The bill in its final did not require black sufferage, and Lincoln pocket vetoed by refusing to sign the bill before Congress ajourned
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Johnson appointed North Carolina and other states under provisional govenors to call constituional conventions
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With a Republican president and a Democratic congress, the reconstructed states in the south passed black codes, still restricting slave rights and allowing some slavery to continue in order to keep the Republican party numbers up. Instead of endorsing Johnson's work, established a joint commitee to review the Reconstruction policy and set futher conditions for readmission of the seceded states.
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Many Republicans become radicals on the issue of slavery. the election of 18666 basically became a referendum on the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Freedmen's Bureau set up aid to help former slaves. When Johnson vetoed, it shocked mondern Republicans, saying it ensured a wide opposition to Johnson's Reconstruction plan.
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The Civil Rights Act won the two-thirds majority necessary to override his veto. Never before had Congress overridden a presidential veto. This showed that the president was hopelessly at odds with his own party.
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The Fourteenth Amendment gave the federal government responsibility for guaranteeing equal rights under the law to all Americans.
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Placed the south under rule of the army by reorganizing the region into five military districts.
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Republicans thought this would ensure "loyal" men would dominate new governments, because blacks would vote in order to pretect themselves from white supermacists'.
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Grant, an already well known general, won the election with the help of southern Republican states.
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Johnson clearly dissaproved of new policies, and was against crongress, wanting policies to be run his own way. He dismissed officeholders with radical beliefs, and Congress started passing laws to limit presidential powers of Reconstruction matters.
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Specifically, passed by Congress in 1869 and prohibited any state from denying a male citizen the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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The Ku Klux Klan visited the cabins of active black Republicans, threatening, beating, and even murdering them to protect white's voting rights and pursuading blacks to vote Democrat.
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Greeley failed to inspire enthusiam from lifelong supporters and most Republicans stuck with Grant, wanting to prevent the return of ex-rebels to the south.
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The federal government looked to retire $356 millon in green-backs and change the currency to hard-money. When the economy fell in 1873, it led to an inflation of the currency.
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The act provided for a limited reduction of greenbacks leading to full resumption of specie payments by Janurary 1, 1879.
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The "Whiskey Ring" was a group of distellers and goverment workers who defrauded the federal government of whiskey taxes. Over $3 millon in taxes was recovered and 110 convicted of the fraud.
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the outcome of the election remained undecided for months as three southern states contested controll by the Republicans- South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana.
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