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Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction (1863) allowed for a state to be readmitted once

10 percent of its voters in the 1860 Election took an oath of allegiance and pledged to abide by emancipation

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?

His administration was involved in a number of corrupt activities.

To reduce racial tension that had erupted following the end of the Civil War, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act (1867), which

divided the South into five military districts

In the Supreme Court case Ex parte Milligan, the court ruled that

citizens could not be tried by a military court if a civilian court was in session

One of the most enduring legacies of the Reconstruction era was the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, which

granted voting rights to all male U.S. citizens, regardless of race

Which was the first Southern state to be readmitted into the Union during Reconstruction?

Tennessee

What was the Ten Percent Plan?

Southern states could return to the Union when 10% of their voters (based on the 1860 vote) had taken an oath to the Union.

The Wade-Davis Bill

required 50% of the Southern states' voters to take oaths of allegiance

The 14th Amendment

inserted the word "male" into the Constitution for the first time.

What was the Compromise of 1877?

The North got their president (Rutherford B. Hayes), and the military was removed from the Southern state governments.