-
LIncoln Anounces his 10% plan
This plan decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by Emancipation. He felt this was best for pot growing nation. -
Period: to
Reconstruction Timeline
-
Wade-Davis Bill vetoed by Lincoln
President Lincoln feared that asking 50 percent of voters to take a loyalty oath would ruin any chance of ending the war quickly and would fuel further antagonism between the North and South. The President also objected to the notion that Southern states needed to "re-join" the Union. The Wade Davis Bill also provided that Congress, not the President, would be in charge of reconstruction. Abraham Lincoln therefore applied the Presidential veto of the Bill -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th President of the United States because of his dominant role in the second half of the Civil War. -
Lincoln gets Re-Elected
In the election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president. Lincoln ran under the National Union banner against his former top Civil War general, the Democratic candidate George B. McClellelan -
13th Ammnedment approved by Congress
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. -
Congress creates Freedman's Bureau
The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. -
Lee surrenders at Appattomax
Appomattox was a town of south-central Virginia east of Lynchburg. Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, ending the Civil War. -
Lincoln Assasinated,Johnson becomes President
The Assassination of President Lincoln. Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.Vice President Johnson then became president -
Mississippi enacts "Black Codes"
he Black codes in the United States were any of numerous laws enacted in the states of the former Confederacy after the American Civil War, in 1865 and 1866; the laws were designed to replace the social controls of slavery that had been removed by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
On December 1st 1865 President Johnson called an end to the reconstruction. The political battle between Johnson and congress was halted. -
Radical Republicans
In Congress the most influential Radical Republicans were U.S. Senator Charles Sumner and U.S. Representative Thaddeus Stevens. They led the call for a war that would end slavery. -
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. The act applied to all the ex-Confederate states in the South, except Tennessee who had already ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Johnson Impeached
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson's removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history. -
14th Amendment ratified
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
Sharecropping
A system of farming that developed in the South after the Civil War, when landowners, many of whom had formerly held slaves, lacked the cash to pay wages to farm laborers, many of whom were former slaves. The system called for dividing the crop into three shares — one for the landowner, one for the worker, and one for whoever provided seeds, fertilizer, and farm equipment. -
15th Amendment ratified
Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws. -
Amnsesty Act of 1872
The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of the Confederacy. -
Freedmen's Bureau Terminated
Oliver O. Howard, the Freedmen's Bureau might be termed the first federal ... hostility of white Southerners, terminated the bureau in July 1872.. -
Congress passes Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1875, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era to guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury service. -
Disputed Election
The United States presidential election of 1876 was one of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted. -
Hayes declared President, Reconstruction ends
Rutherford B. Hayes the 19th president of the United States, won a controversial and fiercely disputed election against Samuel Tilden. He withdrew troops from the Reconstruction states in order to restore local control and good will, a decision that many perceived as a betrayal of African Americans in the South. He served a single term, as he had promised in his inaugural address. -
Compromise of !877
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.
