american reconstruction

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    Lincoln's presidency

  • 10% plan

    gives amnesty to most southerners and will allow them to make a new government
  • Wade-Davis Bill

    a bill that begins the 10% plan
  • Freedman's Bureau

    a bureau that helps the newly freed slaves
  • Lincoln's assassination

    an assassination which was an attempt to reignite the civil war
  • Black Codes

    a set of laws to limit black people
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    Johnson's Presidency

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    laid the ground work for the 14th Amendment
  • Military Reconstruction

    undos Johnson's programs and the military takes over the south
  • Johnson's impeachment

    Johnson is impeached for over steping his bounds