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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
Lincoln's plan was to allow Southern states to be readmitted into the Union if ten percent of their voting population swore allegiance to the Union. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The Wade-Davis Bill was a revised version of Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, only it required that Southern States garuantee African American's the right to vote as well as fifty percent of the state's voting population pledge to the Union. -
Lincoln re-elected
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Congress Creates Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedman's Bureau provided food, housing and medical assistance, legal aid and established schools for Freed slaves and poor whites in the South -
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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Mississippi enacts first Black Codes
Laws designed to restrict an African American's ability to own land, vote and other basic rights held by white men. -
13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
The Thirteenth Amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States. -
Radical Rebublicans
Radical Rebublicans want African American rights, and fight for them. They are a danger to the Reconstruction because they push too hard for freedmen's rights, and eventually less gets done because of it. -
1st, 2nd,and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The 1st Act broke the Confederate South into five military districts, where a Northern Amry General was put in supreme control, and whose job was to protect the peace of the area. -
Johnson impeached
Johnson was impeached for continueously disregarding and vetoing the views of Congress, and eventually he ignored an Act passed by Congress that required the Senate to give the president permission to disregard an important government official. Johnson's ignoring this Bill infuriated Congress, and he was impeached. -
14th Amendment ratified
The 14th Amendment gave citizenship to all people either born or naturalized in the United States, including freed slaves and African Americans. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Grant tried to continue with reconstruction, while protecting the rights of African American. Unfortunately, many of his associates were very corrupt and they brought him down. -
Sharecropping
A system where a land owner allows a farmer to use a bit of their land in return for a portion of their crops. -
15th Amendment ratified
The 15th Amendment garuanteed African American men the right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts were acts passed by Congress to protect the voting rights of the African Americans and protect their right to hold office, and serve on a jury. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
The Amnesty Act of 1872 removed the restrictions on former Confederates, allowing them to vote and hold offices again. -
Freedman'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
An unofficial deal between the Rebulblicans and the Democrats that settled the presidential election by giving Hayes some of the diputed states, in return for more Democratic participation in the South, and the the removal of all Federal troops in the South.
