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| Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction 1863 |
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| Lincoln's plan to reunify the nation. Most southerners accepted the plan. Dealth with new government, land, and freed slaves. |
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| Required that fifty percent of a state's whites be re-admitted into the Union and states gave blacks the right to vote. Lincon didn't sign the bill and killed it with a pocket veto. |
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| Supervised care for all freed blacks such as providing education, shelter, food, and clothing. |
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| Laws passed by the southern government during Johnson's presidency. Imposed severe restrictions on blacks. |
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| Led by a group of Republicans. Believed blacks were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites. |
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| Passed during Johnson's presidency. Declared all people born in U.S. were now citizens without regard to race, color, etc. |
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| Tenture of Office Act of 1867 |
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| Passed during Johnson's presidency. Required all federal courts' officials wouldn't be removed without consent of the Senate. President could also suspend officials. |
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| Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial of 1868 |
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| Political trial based off violation of Tenture of Office Act, Reconstruction policies, and his vetoes of the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights Act. |
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| U.S. citizens were now legal despite race/color, etc. |
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| Granted blacks the right to vote. |
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| Introduced by Charles Sumner and Benjamin Butler. Assured blacks could get jobs. |
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| A southern white who supported Reconstruction. |
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| negative term south gave to the northerners that moved south during the reconstruction era. |
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| landowner allows tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop. |
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| like the Great Depression |
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| Group of whites who hated blacks and wanted them off the earth. Often killed blacks by hanging them, torturing, etc. |
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| Tilden (Democrat) vs. Hayes (Republican). Hayes wins and reconstruction ends. Troops are removed from the South. |
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| Withdrew soldiers from South, helped South's economy, appointed Democrats to positions in the South and the president's cabinet. |
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| Freed slave who was the 2nd African American to serve in the U.S. Senate. Was for reconstruction. |
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| 1st African American who served in the U.S. Senate and Congress. |
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| Politician. Massachusetts statesmen, leader of anti-slavery movement in Massachusetts and of the Radical Republicans. |
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