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Reconstruction Amendments |
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Right to vote
race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
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The process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War |
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Limiting the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks |
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Ended Congressional
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| The segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for whites and blacks |
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Upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in private businesses |
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A U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen |
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| A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land |
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A loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party |
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Reconstruction
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Lincoln's
10% plan |
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- A general amnesty would be granted to all who would take an oath of loyalty to the United States and pledge to obey all federal laws pertaining to slavery
- High Confederate officials and military leaders were to be temporarily excluded from the process
- When one tenth of the number of voters who had participated in the 1860 election had taken the oath within a particular state, then that state could launch a new government and elect representatives to Congress.
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Reconstruction
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Johnson's
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- Pardons would be granted to those taking a loyalty oath
- No pardons would be available to high Confederate officials and persons owning property valued in excess of $20,000
- A state needed to abolish slavery before being readmitted
- A state was required to repeal its secession ordinance before being readmitted.
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