Chapter 15- Reconstruction Flashcards
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Andrew Johnson
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Former slave owner and senator from Tennessee; as Lincoln’s successor and seventeenth president, he lost control over reconstruction policy and barely survived impeachment in 1868.
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Presidential reconstruction.
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Andrew Johnson’s plan to pardon ex-confederate leaders and read it former confederate states to the union on lenient terms.
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Black codes
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Laws passed by southern states to limit the rights of freedmen