(1 point) Responses grandfather clause grandfather clause sharecropping sharecropping black codes black codes ten percent plan ten percent plan

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- The grandfather clause was a way for Southern states to disenfranchise African Americans by allowing individuals to vote only if their grandfathers had been eligible to vote before the Civil War.
- Sharecropping was a system of agriculture in which freedmen and poor farmers would work on a landowner's farm in exchange for a share of the crop.
- Black codes were laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War that restricted the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
- The ten percent plan was President Abraham Lincoln's proposal for Reconstruction, which stated that a Southern state could be readmitted to the Union once ten percent of its voters swore allegiance to the United States and agreed to abolish slavery.