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This group helped newly freed slaves with food, medical care, jobs, housing and schooling.

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Freedmen's Bureau

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The members of Congress battled with both presidents because they felt that the Presidential Reconstruction Plans:

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were too lenient on the Southern states that had rebelled against the Union.

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Who favored harsher punishment on the Reconstruction plans?

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Congress

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What are Black Codes?

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wouldn't allow blacks to vote, testify against whites in court or be a juror.

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Why did Georgia expel its black legislators?

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Said Georgia constitution denied black the right to hold political office.

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_________________________ owned animals and equipment, but not land.

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Tenant Farming

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_________________________ owned neither equipment, animals nor land.

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Sharecroppers

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Constitutional Amendment that granted citizenship to freedmen; required freedmen to be given "equal protection under the law"

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14th

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Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery

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13th

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Period of time, after the Civil War, when the South was required to undergo political, social, economic change in order to reenter the United States.

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Reconstruction