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Chapter 17
Chapter17 Reconstruction and its Aftermath
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8th Grade
05/18/2011

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Ten percent plan
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Lincoln's plan for reconstruction; all white southerners receive amnesty but former confederate leaders
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Radical Reconstruction
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Republicans in Congress easily overrode Johnson's vetoes and took charge during Reconstruction
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Freedman's Bureau
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helped African Americans in the south in many ways like education
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Restoration
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Johnson's plan for constructing the south
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Restoration
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Johnson's plan for constructing the south
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13th amendment
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abolishes slavery in the U.S and southern states had to ratify this before being allowed back into the U.S
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14th amendment
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full citizenship to all individuals born in the U.S and says that no state could take away a citizen's life, liberty, and property "without due process of law"
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Johnson and impeachment
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president who takes over Lincoln who violated the Tenure of Office Act and was impeachment
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15th amendment
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gives black males the right to vote in the U.S.
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Hiram Revels
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FORMER MINSTER AA senator
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Blanche K. Bruce
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RUNAWAY SLAVE, SCHOOL SUPERINTEDENT, AA Senator
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sharecropping
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most common form of farmwork for freed individuals in the south after the civil war
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U.S Grant
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former union general who became president as a Republican and with help from black voters too
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Ku Klux Klan
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White sercret society fromed in the south that acted in violently against AA sometimes lynching them
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Amnesty Act
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changed the politicial balance in the Senate by restoring full rights to people who supported the democrats
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Thaddeus Stevens
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Radical Republican
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Jim Crow Laws
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laws the continued the practice of segregation in the south
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grandfather clause
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very effective for white southerners when voting the issued a literacy test it allowed whites who couldn't pass it to vote if their father or grandfather had voted before the Reconstruction
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