1865-1877, years during which the Reconstruction period occurred, Reconstruction, time period after the Civil War when the South had to be rebuilt, sharecropping, system in which plantation owners provided livestock, tools, and land to former slaves in exchange for a share of the crop, carpetbagger, term used to refer to northerners who went South, scalawag, term used to refer to Southerners who had sides with the North during the Civil War, Radical Republicans, group of northern Congressmen who wanted freedmen to be granted full political equality, 14th amendment, granted citizenship to former slaves, 15th amendment, gave black men the right to vote, 13th amendment, abolished slavery, Reconstruction Act, established direct military rule over former Confederate states until new governments could be formed. Divided the south into 5 military districts., freedman, term that refers to a former slave, Hiram Rhodes Revels, first African-American elected to Congress, Freedman's Bureau, organization established to help former slaves with food, clothing and medical care, literacy tests, needed to be taken and passed in order to vote, poll taxes, had to be paid in order to vote, Ten Percent Plan, Lincoln's plan for readmitting former Confederate states into the Union once 10% of voters pledged allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, Andrew Johnson, lenient towards the south; allowed Southern state governments to be made up of former Confederates, Radical Reconstruction, Republicans in Congress wanted to punish the South for its role in the Civil War.

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