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| Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan |
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| when 10% of the rebellious state's voters had taken an oath of loyalty, the state would be restored to the Union |
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an oath of allegiance necessitated by a majority of a rebellious state's white adult males
also permanently disenfranchised Confederate leaders by demanding that the new state governments form of those who had never borne arms against the North
needed to repudiate Confederate debts
revoke ordinances of secessions
ratify the 13th amendment |
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laws enacted in the South designed to drive former slaves back to plantations by:
imposing penalties on vagrancy
placing heavy restrictions on black workers
and legalizing intense forms of "apprenticeship" |
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| established by Congress in March 1865 to aid ex-slaves in the transition from war to peace |
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| head of the Freedmen's Bureau, ordered by Johnson in October 1865 to restore plantations on the Sea Islands to their white owners |
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| with wages, but secured the dependency of the blacks on white landowners |
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ends up manifesting itself in the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, not passed as a bill
in response to the Southern states lack of enforcing Reconstruction |
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| established that all persons born within the United States are citizens and that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law |
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| forbade the government or the states from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony |
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| the leaders of the National Woman Suffrage Association |
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Southern whites who supported Reconstruction
--> drawn to Republicanism as the best way to attract Northern capital to the South
--> against the slaveholding aristocracy |
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Northerners
--> some were idealists eager to advance the cause of emancipation
--> others were Union army veterans who found opportunities for themselves in the South |
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an ex-slave who established a school for ex-slaves in Missouri during the war
in 1869 he moved to Mississippi, became active in politics, and in 1874 because Mississippi's second black U.S. Senator |
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| one of the many black preachers to become a political leader during Reconstruction |
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tactic used by the Republicans in response to the Democrats' and Johnson's objections to states ratifying the Fourteenth amendment
--> declaring the democratic party traitorous by going against the principles of the country and the purposes of the war
--> using war emotions |
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| example of a planet whose ex-slaves demanded that they be allowed to cultivate the land they served on as their own |
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| important for securing the freedom of black women by formalizing legal marriage, protecting them from the control of their laborers |
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| Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
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Grant changes the course of Reconstruction
establishes the South as a conquered land split up into military districts
helped freedmen have their voting rights protected |
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| restricted the authority of the president to dismiss senior officials without the consent of the Senate |
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| Secretary of War, dismissed by Johnson but reinstated by Grant |
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the first time ever attempted was with Johnson, but many acquitted his 11 counts because they believed it to be a violation of checks and balances
many Democrats were afraid of the Republican alternative to Johnson, Benjamin F. Wade, the pro-term of the Senate |
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| treasury agents who defrauded the government with excise tax on whiskey, including Grant's private secretary, Orville Babcock |
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| freedmen exchanging their labor for use of land, and turned over half of their yielded crops to the landlord |
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| suppress the activity of the Klan |
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| federal government exceeded authority by trying to manage the Klan |
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| author of the Prostrate State, propaganda exhibiting supposed freedmen rioting and reliance on the Reconstruction regimes |
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a breakaway of the Republican party, response to the fall of Grant's administration, nominated Horace Greeley
original Republican party nominated Rutherford B. Hayes |
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commission created to decide on the very close election between Greeley and Hayes
David Davis, who had no supposed loyalties was replaced by Joseph P. Bradley, who gave all disputed votes to Hayes |
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