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The Compromise of 1877 was a purported 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.
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A state could be readmitted if 10% of it´s voters swore to a loyalty oath (pledge of allegiance) to the union and agreed to the end slavery. It was also known as Lincoln´s 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty.
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Lincoln vetoes the Wade-Davis Bill because he felt as if it was too harsh. It was an alternative to Lincoln´s Ten Precent Plan
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Lincoln won the re-election by a wide margin.
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The 13th amendment made it to where there were no more enslaved African Americans and that they could no longer be owned as property. They couldn´t be sold or seperated from their families.
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Was established as a welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens.
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The Confederate Army Surrendered to The Union, leaving the Union with a major victory.
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Lincoln was shot April 14, 1865 at Ford´s Theater when him and his wife Mary went to see a play. Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth who was one of the actors in the play they went to see. Andrew Johnson became the 17th president. Andrew Johnson was the Vice President of Lincoln.
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President Johnson declares that the Recounstruction was complete
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These were laws that made African Americans second class citizens. They denied African Americans the rights they were granted. They had Vagrancy Laws in Mississippi which authorized police officers to arrest unemployed African American men and force them to work off their jail time by doing laborous work.
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They were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from 1854 until the end of the Reconstruction in 1877.
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Johnson was Impeached for dismissing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. He was impeached by the House of Representatives by a vote of 126. He was charged with violation of the Tenure of Office Act.
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Congress enacted the reconstruction act, which supplemented later by three related acts, divided the south (except tennesee) into five military districts in which the authority of the army commander was supreme
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He commanded the victourious Union Army during the American Civil War. He seemed bewildered. He provided neither vigor or reform.
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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
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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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THe 15th amendement makes it so citizens can vote no matter what their race is.
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The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. 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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The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of the Confederacy.
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