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| laws passed in southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves |
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| Reconstruction Agency established in 1865 to protect the legal rights of former slaves and to assist with their education, jobs, health care, and landowning |
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| Johnson's Reconstruction Program |
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*Former Confederate leaders retained Political and Economical Power
* Suffrage was recommended, not required.
*Confederate States had to ratify 13th amendment(abolished slavery) to be readmitted.
* Johnson was extremely lenient. |
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| Radical Republican Reconstruction Program |
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*Carved up the south into 5 militsry districts.
*South had to create new state governments under their requirements
*to be readmitted:
-Former Confederate leaders excluded from office and to vote
-black suffrage
-ratify 14th admendment
-This program was considered harsh, demanding, punishing to south, but necessary in eyes of north |
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| Guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves |
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| Guaranteed Blacks the right to vote. Southern states had to ratify to be readmitted into the Union. |
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| The collapse of Reconstruction |
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Disfranchisement programs set up in the south.
Jim Crow Laws
Lynchings |
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| Establishing a court ruling on segregation; separate but equal. |
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