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lincoln set fourth his plan in the proclimation of Amnesty, or pardon , to all southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the united states and accepted the union's proclimations concerning slavery.
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This bill required the majority of the adult white men in a former confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the union. The state could then hold a constitutional convention to create a new state government.
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the refugee crisis prompted congress to establish the bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned land.
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the president and congress grappled with reconstruction, or rebuilding after the war.They had to decide under what terms and conditions the former confederate states would rejoin the union.
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The act granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States except native americans.
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congressional republicans passed the military reconstruction act, which essentially wiped out johnson's programs. The act divided the former confederacy, except Tennessee.
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Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse Congress creates Freedmen’s Bureau Lincoln is assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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this amendment declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied... on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitued."
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all of the former confederate states had rejoined the union under the congressional reconstruction plan. throughout the south, the republican party took power and introduced several major reforms.
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after the ku klux klan outraged president grant and congressional republicans they passed THREE ENFORCEMENT ACTS to combat the violence in the south
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after failing to stop grant from his second nomination, the liberal republicans left the republican party and nominated their own canidate, who was horace greeley.
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after a series of bad railroad investments forced the jay cooke and company to declare bankrupcy, a wave of fear quickly spread through the nation's financial community.
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the whiskey ring scandal broke. a group of government officials and distillers in st. louis cheated the government out of millions of dollars by filling fake tax reports.
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with grants reputation damaged with scandals, the republicans decided not to nominate him for a third term. instead they nominated rutherford b. hayes, a former ohio governor.
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northern capital helped to build railroad. this was almost 40,000 miles of railroad tracks crisscrossing the south nearly 4 times.
