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Ten-Percent Plan
Lincoln's plan to reconstruct the South after the war. The government would pardon most of the Confederates. -
Johnson's Plan
The remaining Confederate states would be readmitted to the Union, if they met several conditions. They would have to withdraw its secession, swear allegiance to the Union, annul Confederate war debts, and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment. -
Freedmen's Bureau
Established by Congress in the last month of the war. They assisted former slaves and poor whites, in the South, by distributing clothing and food. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This act gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discriminatory laws. These discriminatory laws were also referred to as the Black Codes. -
Reconstruction Act of 1867
This act did not recognize state governments formed under the Lincoln and Johnson plans. The only states that it recognized were those who ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. -
The Fourteenth Amendment
This amendment provided a constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act. It did not come right out and say that African American could vote. It simply said that if any state would to prevent a portion of its male citizens form voting, that state would lose a percentage of its congressional seats. -
The Fifteenth Amendment
This amendment says that no one can be kept from voting due to race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The amendment affected all the states in both the Northern and Southern parts. -
Johnson gets Impeached
Radical leaders felt that Johnson was not carrying out his constitutional obligation to enforce the Reconstruction Act. Johnson remove the military forces who attempted to enforce the act.
