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| 5584011535 | Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own government afetr ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States | 0 | |
| 5584011536 | Wade-Davis Bill | an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill thinking it was too harsh. | 1 | |
| 5584011537 | Black Codes | Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War | 2 | |
| 5584011538 | Freedmen's Bureau | created by Congress to provide clothing, shelter, education, food, and medicine to former slaves (vetoed by Johnson and overrode by Congress) | 3 | |
| 5584011539 | Civil Rights Act of 1866 | A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment. (vetoed by Johnson and overrode by Congress) | 4 | |
| 5584011540 | Fourteenth Amendment | guarantees equal protection of the law and rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the USA, including former slaves. | 5 | |
| 5584011541 | Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Act passed by Congress that abolished previous state governments and set up 5 temporary military districts run by Union generals. | 6 | |
| 5584011542 | Fifteenth Amendment | guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude | 7 | |
| 5584011546 | sharecropping | A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. | 8 | |
| 5584011548 | scalawags | A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners | 9 | |
| 5584011549 | carpetbaggers | A derogatory term applied to Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to take advantage of opportunities to advance their own fortunes | 10 | |
| 5584011556 | "Redemption" | Southern Democratic term for the end of Reconstruction and the return of white southern Democratic rule to the South. | 11 | |
| 5584011557 | Ku Klux Klan | A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. | 12 | |
| 5584011558 | Enforcement Laws | Protected the freedman's rights under the 14th and 15th amendments, authorized military action to suppress terrorist movements | 13 | |
| 5584011559 | Slaughter-House Cases | Undercut the power of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect African American rights. | 14 | |
| 5584011562 | Andrew Johnson | United States President during Reconstruction; he was impeached by Congress for not agreeing with their plan to reconstruct the South. | 15 | |
| 5584011565 | Ulysses S. Grant | President who used his authority to fight against the KKK and secure rights for freed slaves; scandals and public opinion slowed his effectiveness | 16 |
