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Reconstuction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the voters swore a loyalty oath to the union and agreed to the end of slavery. -
Lincoln re-elected
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Lincoln vetos Wade-Davis Bill
This bill required states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African American men the right to vote. -
Freedman's Bureau
A welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become citizens -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House - Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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13 Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
African American were no longer enslaved and could no longer be owned as property. -
Mississippi enacts first Black Code
Made African-Americansecond class citizens. Denied them right to vote and some states prohibited intermarrying. -
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans want the government to protect civil and social rights of freed African-American. They play a dangerous role because they wanted harsh treatment Confederate soilders. -
1st, 2nd, 3rd Reconstruction Act
Divided the South into 5 military districts controlled by a general of the union army -
Johnson impeached
Johnson violated the Tenure of office act -
14th amendment ratified
Equal citizenship to all people born in the U.S. also declared individuals that supported seccession on confederacy can't be in office -
Ulysses S.Grant elected
He was a northern hero and wanted to remove vestiges of the after math of slavery -
Sharecropping
The owners allows the farmer to use the land as long as the owner gets a share of the crops -
15th amendment ratified
Citizens rights to vote shall not be denined by the U.S. or any state for anyreason -
Enforcement act
Three bills passed which protected the African-American right to vote -
Amnesty Act of 1872
removed voting restrictions and office holding disqualified -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
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Lame-duck Congress passes civil right act
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Disputed Election
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Compromise of 1877
Make Hayes winner in exchange for Republicans withdrawing federal troops from the south -
Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends
