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Reconstruction

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Reconstruction rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
Ten Percent Plan Lincoln's plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States
13th Amendment (1865) abolished slavery
Freedmen's Bureau 1865 - - organization set up by Congress to provide relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South
Andrew Johnson Vice President who became president after Lincoln's assassination.
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.
Black Codes southern laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
Radical Republicans Republicans who wanted more federal control in Reconstruction to make sure southern leaders did not remain loyal to the old Confederate principles.
Civil Rights Act of 1866 Passed by Congress on 9th April 1866 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition.
Reconstruction Acts laws passed to protect African American rights
Impeachment process of bringing charges against a public official for misconduct in office
15th Amendment (1870) Prohibited voting restrictions based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Hiram Revels first African American senator
Ku Klux Klan secret society that used violence to oppress African Americans
poll tax special tax people had to pay before they could vote
segregation forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places
Jim Crow laws laws that enforced segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling that upheld segregation
sharecropping system in which farm laborers kept, or shared, some of the crop
14th Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
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