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Word Study 10 Part 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Freedmen | men and women who had been enslaved |
| Reconstruction | rebuilding of the South after the Civil War |
| Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln's plan for the south to rejoin the Union |
| Amnesty | a government pardon |
| Wade Davis Bill | a rival plan to the Ten Percent Plan proposed by Republicans in Congress |
| Freedmen's Bureau | a government agency to help former slaves (Republicans in Congress and Lincoln agreed.) |
| Thirteenth Amendment | change added to the constitution that banned slavery in the nation |
| Black codes | laws that severely limited the rights of freedmen |
| Fourteenth Amendment | change added to the constitution that defined citizens as "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" |
| Radical Reconstruction | Period when Republicans controlled both house of Congress and took charge of Reconstruction. |
| Reconstruction Act | a law that threw out Southern state governments that had not ratified the 14th Amendment and placed them under the control of 5 military districts |
| Impeach | to bring charges of serious wrongdoing against a public official |
| Fifteenth Amendment | change to the Constitution that forbad any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." |
| Scalawags | a word used for a small scruffy horse, white Southern Republicans were called this (seen as traitors) |
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