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Reconsonstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A new state will be readmitted if 10% of the voters swear in oath to end slavery. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The Wade-Davis Bill asked for the reconstruction of the south written by Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland. Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill, but President Lincoln chose not to sign it. -
Lincoln re-elected
In 1864 Northern voters overwhelmingly voted for the leadership of President Abraham Lincoln when they re-lected him president again. -
Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was established to help and protect freedmen during their transition from a life of slavery to a life of freedom. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House-Civil War ends
On aprill 9, 1865 Confederate Robert E. Lee surrenderd to the union nearby hamlet of Appomattox Court House effectively ending the Civil War. -
Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. After 6 weeks later of president Abraham Lincoln's death Andrew Johnson became the president of the United States. -
Mississippi enacts first Black Code
The black codes restricted the ability of blacks to owe land and work as free labors and denied them most of the civil and political right enjoyed by whites. -
13th Amendment approved and ratified
The 13th amendment made slavery and involuntary servitude illegal everywhere in the United States. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
President Johnson declares the reconstruction process complete. Outraged, Radical Republicans in Congress refuse to recognize new governments in Southern states. -
Radical Republicans
Republican favoring drastic and usually repressive measures against the southern states in the period following the Civil War. -
1st 2nd and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The First Reconstruction Act, also known as the Military Reconstruction Act, passed into law on March 2, 1867 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. -
Johnson impeached
Johnson was impeached in Feb 24, on March 13 his impeachment trial began in the Senate The trial ended on May 26 with Johnson's opponents narrowly failing to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to convict him. -
14th Amendment ratified
The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all people including former slaves recently freed. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Ulysses S. Grant did not make that much of an impact to the reconstruction, Overall Ulysses S. Grant was a good leader. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is system of working land owned by others for a share of the yield. The sharecropping and tenant farming system became widespread following the Civil War during the period of Reconstruction. -
15th Amendment ratified
The 15th Amendment prohibited the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”. -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States which were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
The Amnesty Act of 1872 removed voting and office-holding restrictions on most former members of the Confederacy. -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
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Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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Disputed election
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Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends
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Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.