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Social 8
Ch. 16.1&2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Wade-Davis Bill | 50% voters must sign loyalty oath to the Union...never became law |
| John Wilkes Booth | Confederate sympathizer shot Lincoln |
| Radical Republicans | wanted a strict policy toward South (South not gain power) |
| Freedmen's Bureau | provide emergency relief to people displaced by war...set up schools, jobs, courts. |
| Freedman | enslaved people who had been freed by the war |
| Abraham Lincoln | created 10% plan, killed by John Wilkes Booth |
| 10 Percent Plan | Plan that confederate states can organize a new government if 10% of state's voters swore loyalty to U.S. |
| Amnesty | group pardon(forgive) |
| Andrew Johnson | Vice President to Lincoln, became President after Lincoln death |
| 15th Amendment | barred states from denying African American males right to vote on account of race or color or previous slavery |
| Ulysses S. Grant | won Presidential election in 1868 |
| Scalawag | southern whites who had disagreed with secession |
| Sharecropper | laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop |
| Segregation | enforced separation of races |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | won election of 1876 agreed to end Reconstruction |
| Radical Republicans | wanted to prevent former Confederates from gaining control over southern politics |
| 13th Amendment | banned slavery and forced labor |
| Andrew Johnson | President after Lincoln that had forgiving plan for reconstruction of South |
| 14th Amendment | all people born or naturalized in US are citizens |