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Reconstruction Legislation
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Congress's plan for reconstruction that Lincoln vetoed | Wade-Davis Bill |
| Congress passed this law to keep President Johnson from dismissing presidental appointees | Tenure of Office Act - 1867 |
| The country's first federal relief agency that was established to help freed slaves in the South | The Freedmen's Bureau |
| Legislation that abolished slavery. | Thirteenth Amendment (1865) |
| Legislation that gave blacks citizenship despite Johnson's veto | Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
| Law that gave citizenship to people of all races, including blacks; eliminated the 3/5 compromise in counting of the population; | Fourteenth Amendment - 1866 |
| The law that established military rule in the South | The Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
| Legislation that gave men of all races (including blacks)full voting rights | Fifteenth Amendment - 1870 |