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Lincoln's reconstruction plan
blueprint for reconstruction which involved the 10 perecent plan. That 10 percent of the southern voters agreeded with the union -
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Reconstruction
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wade davis bill
Required all southern white men to take a loyalty oath to reconnect the union lets blacks vote. -
special field order 15
Union general William T. Sherman confiscated a strip of land on the coast line that was 400,000 acres worth. -
Lincoln dies
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln -
Freedmen’s Bureau
helped millions of free slaves and poor white men from the civil war’s aftermath with food, water, and shelter -
amendments 13-15
designed to ensure equal rights for all free slaves and made slavery illegal nationwide -
Great constitutional revolution
a new set of laws allowing the nation to start fresh without slavery -
Civil rights bill of 1866
first federal law that protected the civil rights of slaves -
Black codes
laws passed by the south trying to limit African American freedom -
Radical republicans
Group of republicans that supported freedmen; limited suffrage for ex-confederate soldiers -
The reconstruction act
outlines a plan to reintegrate the south into the union -
impeachment of Johnson
he fired a secretary violating the Tenure of Office Act -
Ku Klux Klan
secret white supremacy group that uses violence to protect and fight for an all white state -
Scalawags
group of republicans who came to power through politics -
Sharecropping
from of agriculture where the owner of the land “leases” out their land in exchange for a share of the crops produced -
Enforcement Acts
laws that protected African-Americans right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and to receive equal protection -
Slaughterhouse cases
first supreme court case involving the 14th amendments -
Bargain of 1877
document that pulled the last troops out of the south -
Civil rights act of 1877
laws that protect blacks civil rights
