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| Government program to repair damage to the South and a plan of how to restore the South to the Union. |
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| Official forgiveness for a crime. |
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| Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction |
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| Harsher than Johnson's Plan. Also known as the Ten Percent Plan because after 10% of voters swore allegiance to the United States, they could hold a convention |
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| A group of republicans that were against Lincoln's plan because it still wouldn't give full equality to African- Americans. |
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| Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction |
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| Very similar to Lincoln's plan without the 10 percent plan. |
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| Federal Relief Agency to help Black Southerners adjust to freedom |
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| to charge with wrongdoing in office (Happened to President Johnson on a vote 126 to 47, but didn't make it through the Congress) |
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| Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
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| A plan that radicals in congress pushed for. It included putting the South under Military Rule, by dividing it into 5 districts. |
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| All persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States. The main idea is that it guaranteed "equal" rights for freedsmen. |
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| No citizen could be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Basically stating that African-Americans were allowed to vote. |
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| Citizen's personal liberties guaranteed by law, such as voting rights and equal treatment |
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| Congress V. President Johnston |
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| House voted for Pres. Johnston to be impeached, but he escaped impeachment in the senate by one vote. |
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| When white planters had slaves, they didn't need to "hire" any workers so when the slaves were free, they had land but no labor, and the slaves were the labor, but they didn't have any land. |
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| Planters let African-Americans borrow land for a season for a portion of profits. They charged them lots for housing, food, ect. and they were unable to pay their debt off. |
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| Similar to Sharecropping, but the tenants decide what to plant and when to work, and paid the landowner a portion of profits. |
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| Landowners made more money by opening stores and selling to tenants and sharecroppers at hugely inflated prices. |
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| Labor was 45% white labors by 1875, much more than previously. Farmers farmed cash crops that made more money. |
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1. Poor Whites and Freedmen don't have jobs.
2. Landowners agreed to let them farm the landowners land for a portion of profits.
3. Landowner charges them huge prices for housing and food.
4. sharecropper owes more to the landowner than their share of crop is worth.
5. Sharecropper cannot leave the farm until he pays off the debt. |
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| Sharecropping and Tenant Farming encouraged planters to grow crops like Cotton, Tobacco, and Sugar Cane. These made more money, but led the South to food shortages. |
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| Wanted to keep blacks as submissive laborers. Scared them out of voting by burning homes, killing people, ect. |
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| Stopped the KKK. Banned the use of terror, violence, ect. to scare people out of voting because of their race. |
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| Electoral Vote was Disputed. Democrats agreed to give Hayes the victory in return for the Military force being taken out of the South. |
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| The "fate" of America to move South, led to the surge to the West in the 1830-40s |
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| Difference between North and South |
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North had more Railroad, Population, Factories, Money, Technology, prejudice against blacks, and was more urban.
South had more Agriculture, Livestock, and was more rural. |
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| Lincoln won every free state but didn't even appear on most southern ballots. Lincoln won the election. |
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| Abolitionist who attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA. Brown was sentenced to hanging because of treason. |
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| Where the Civil War Started. Fought in April 1861. |
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