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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 14th amendment | gave citizenship to former slaves |
| 15th amendment | gave African Americans the right to vote |
| lincolins plan | 10% plan - 10% of the voters in a state had to swear an oath of loyalty to be readmitted to the south |
| radical republicans | northerners who controlled Congress and passed reconstruction act of 1867 that was very tough on the south. they wanted to protect freedom |
| Thaddeus stevens | leader of the radical republicans |
| reconstruction ends in 1877 | rutherford b hayes was elected as president; hayes agreed he would end reconstruction and remove troops from the south |
| segregation | separation by race |
| Jim crows laws | segregation laws that separted blacks from white |
| tenure of office act | law broken by Johnson when he fired secretary of war Edwin staton ; as a result Johnson was impeached. |
| sharecropping | way for poor to rent farmland from wealthy landowners in return for a share of their crops |