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The Ten Percent Plan specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.
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The Wade Davis Bill required 50% of a state's male voters to take an oath that they never voluntarily supported the confederacy
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The Freedmen's Bureau assisted freed men in transition from slavery to freedom at the end of the Civil War.
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The black codes restricted African American's abilities to work and have freedom
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The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States
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Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They opposed lincoln
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The 1st Reconstruction Act divided the South (except Tennessee) into five military districts in which the authority of the army commander was supreme.
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Ulysses S. Grant was a Union general who led the Union to victory during the American Civil War.
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He was impeached because of political conflict and the rupture of ideologies in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
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the 14th amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
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Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
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15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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The Enforcement Acts 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 Act of 1872 removed voting and office-holding restrictions on most former members of the Confederacy.
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Compromise of 1877 was a informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era
