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| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States, 10 percent plan for reconstruction |
| ten percent plan | Lincoln - when 10% of states population swore an oath of loyalty to US the state could form a new government, declare the end of slavery, and send representatives to Congress |
| amnesty | a group pardon -- offered by Lincoln to all Confederates soldiers except government leaders and top military officers |
| freedman | enslaved people who had been freed by the war |
| Freedmen's Bureau | set up to aid freedmen- offering help with food and shelter, job search, education after Civil War |
| John Wilkes Booth | Confederate sympathizer and actor - he killed Abraham Lincoln on April 14,1865 |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's Vice-President, then President, beginning of Reconstruction |
| Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction | Majority of white men must swear oath of loyalty, new government must ban slaver and ratify 13th Amendment, Confederate officials may vote and hold office |
| scalawag | named called white southerners who had opposed secession |
| carpetbaggers | name that southerners called northerners who went south to start businesses or pursue political office |
| impeach | bring a formal charge against a public official |
| 13th Amendment | constitutional amendment to abolish slavery throughout the nation |
| 14th Amendment | constitutional amendment defining a citizen -- all people born or naturalized in the United States |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Civil War Hero, elected President in 1868, appointed friends and relatives to government positions, terms were known for corruption |
| 15th Amendment | Barred all states from denying the right to vote because of race, color or previous condition of servitude |
| poll tax | personal tax to be paid before voting |
| literacy test | a test to see if a person can read and write |
| segregation | enforced separation of races |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | elected president 1876, ended Reconstruction |
| inferior | of lower rank or status, or of poorer quality |
| Radical Reconstruction | 1867, removed governments in states not ratifying 14th Amendment, made 5 military districts, state must write a new constitution, ratify 14th Amendment, and allow African Americans to vote |
| grandfather clause | a provision that allowed a voter to avoid a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867 |
| Plessy vs Ferguson | Supreme Court ruling that supported segregation laws or laws that could require separate but equal facilities, so long as they were "equal". |
| sharecropper | a laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop. |
