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Reconstrution
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Lincoln announces Ten precent plan
A state could be readmitted if 10% of the voters swore loyality to the union. -
Wade Davis bill
The states had to accept the end of slavery and grant all slave men the right to vote. A strict bill because you had tp swear to be loyal to the union and that you were never willingly associtated with the rebellion in any way. -
The Thirtteenth amendment was ratified
The Thirteenth amendment ment that african americans were free and could not be sold as property or seperated form their families. -
Freemens bureau
A well fair angency that helps once enslaved pleople became citizens and supports them -
Black codes
This denied african americals their rights to vote, segregationin public places. Also they had different punishments for black and white people -
Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens of pennsylvania, Charles Sumner of massachusetts , Bengamin wade of Ohio.
A critical of Aberham lincoln durring the war. A member of own party. Thought that Johnsonś leniency toward former rebels was endangering the whole reconstruction process -
The Reconstruction acts
It outlined what the southern srtaes had to do to be approved and brought back in to thr union, -
Johnsons impeachment
He was accused of violating the tenure os office acts. breaking the law . -
14th amendent
protected voting rights. By not allowingstates to deny voting privilages because of ones race -
Ulysses S. Grabt elected
northern hero of the civil war . With drew union troops from the south . No longer a free mens bureau -
Sharecropping
An economic system , freemens remainded dependent upon former masters. Black men wanted their own plantations. Land owners would buy -
15th amendement
Extended the voting rights for africal american men -
Enforcment Acts
Criminal coade that protected African ammericans right to vote, hold office, serve on juries and equal protection of laws -
Freemen's bureau terminated
Jackson wanted to restore all land to the southerners . The idea was terminaated -
Amnesty act
Allowed many former confederates to run for office. -
Congress passes civil rights acts
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Disputed election
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Compromise of 1877
Democrats agreed to accept the ballot made by Hayes the winner. Republicans agreed to withdraw the federal troops from the south
