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1.1 Plans For Reconstruction Clash


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President after Lincoln
Laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans
1866 Act guaranteeing civil rights
Granted suffrage regardless of race, color, or former condition of servitude
Granted blacks full protection of the law as U.S. citizens
Assisted in education, job training and housing for freedmen and refugees
To charge a government official with a crime
They insisted that the Confederates had committed crimes
the period from 1865-1877
1864 Bill that required a majority to swear loyalty before restoration could begin