13th amendment - abolished slavery in the United States, 14th amendment - made the former slaves citizens, 15th amendment - gave all the former slaves the right to vote (males), emancipation Proclamation - abolished slavery in the southern states only, 14th and 15th amendments - Southern states had to ratify to get back into the United States, Freedmen's Bureau - started by US Congress after the Civil War to assist the former slaves, Education - an area of success for the Freedmans' Bureau, Ku Klux Klan - began by ex confederate Soldiers after the Civil War, Sharecropper - worked for a share of the crop, split with land owner, Repeal ordinance of Secession and abolish slavery - two things most southern states must to do to be readmitted, Andrew Johnson - like Lincoln his plan was too lenient on the South, Cotton - this crop was produced in large quantities after the Civil War, Constant Debt - a sharecropper stayed in this financial condition, white legislators - this group wanted the black legislators out of GA, Johnson - president like Lincoln that set up and easy reconstruction plan,

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