| A | B |
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| Reconstruction | Process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union |
| Ten Percent Plan | Offered southerners amnesty or official pardon for illegal acts supporting rebellion |
| 13th Amendment | Slavery illegal |
| Freedment's Bureau | Agency providing relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in South |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's Vice President. Became Pres. after Lincoln was assassinated |
| Lincoln's Plan | Ten Percent Plan |
| Damages to South | cities,towns & farms ruined, crop failures, starvation,banks failed |
| Congress' Plan | Wade-Davis Bill |
| Changes Freedom brought to newly freed | Couples legalized marriages, people searched for family, many travelled, family were built |
| Why some opposed Johnson's plan | New reps from South were ex-Confed leaders |
| Black Codes | Southern laws limiting the freedom of African Americans |
| Restrictions of Black Codes | 1. Working Contracts 2. No guns 3. No renting property 4. No gathering in groups without white supervision |
| Radical Republicans | Wanted the Federal Government to force change in South |
| Leaders of Radical Republicans | Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner |
| Freedmen's Bureau Bill | Allows Freedmen's Bureau to use military courts to try people accused of violating African Am. rights. Vetoed by Johnson |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | Provided African Americans with same legal rights as white Americans. Vetoed by Johnson |
| !4th Amendment | Proposed in fear that the Civil Rights Act would be overturned |
| Group excluded from 14th Amendment | Native Americans |
| 1866 Elections | Gave Republican Party majority in House & Senate. Moderates & Radicals unite & take over reconstruction |
| Reconstruction Acts | Divided South into 5 districts. Military placed in charge of each district until southern states rejoined Union. |
| 2 Conditions of Reconstruction Acts | 1. Support 14th amendment 2. Give Afr. American men right to vote |
| Why Congress impeached Johnson | Johnson broke law by firing sec. of war without Congress' consent |
| impeachment | Process used to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official |
| Election of 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant becomes President |
| 15th Amendment | Gave African American men right to vote |
| What group was angered by 15th amendment | white women |
