US History: Reconstruction

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This Reconstruction plan said a state could rejoin if 10% of its population swore an oath of loyalty.

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Lincoln's Plan

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The amendment that prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on his or her race.

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15th Amendment

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What amendment abolished (ended) slavery?

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13th Amendment

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What name was given to a terrorist group that used violence to keep African-Americans from having equal rights in the South?

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Ku Klux Klan

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President Johnson was impeached for violating what law?

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Tenure of Office Act

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System of work for freedmen that traded 50% of grown crops for the use of a house & land

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sharecropping

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Which term was used by Southerners to describe people that moved south to make money by taking advantage of the war-torn economy?

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carpetbaggers

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Reconstruction was the process of

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rebuilding the South after the Civil War