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Lincoln sets forth 10% Reconstruction program
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This Ten Percent Plan provided that once 10% or more of the voting population of any occupied region had taken oath, they were authorized to set up a local government. Lincoln hoped the new territories would abolish slavery and this would weaken the South. -
Wade-Davis Bill passes Congress but is pocket-vetoed by Lincoln
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The Wade-Davis Bill required 50% of the region's voting population to take oath of future loyality before restoration. Lincoln cetoed this Bill anf justified his action by announcing that he did not want to be committed to any single Reconstruction. -
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Congress refuses to seat Representatives and Senators elected from states Reestablished under presidental plan.
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Johnson vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Bill.
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The Bureau Bill was a temporary agency set up to aid the former slaves by providing relief, education, legal help, and assistance in obtaining land or employment. Johnson's veto shocked moderate Republicans who had expected the president to accept. -
Johnson vetoes Civil Rights Act; it passes over his veto.
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Johnson also vetoed the Civil Rights Act. This act however won 2/3rds vote in Congress which was necessary to over ride his veto. -
Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment
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The Fourteenth Amendment was perhaps the most important of all Constitutional Amendments. This gave equal rights to all american citizens. -
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First Reconstruction Act is passed over Johnson's veto
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An act to provide for the more efficient government of the Rebel states. Whereas no legal state governments or adequate protection for life in property now exists in the Rebel states, the government then said, that Rebel states shall be divided into military districts and made subject to the military authority of the United States. -
Johnson is impeached; he avoids convction by one vote
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in 1868 president Andrew Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act. This act stated that Senates approval for the removal of a cabinet officer was required. The president decided to replace Stanton, head of the war department, with Grant who was already commander of the army. After being impeached, he was only saved by one vote which allowed him to stay in the white house. -
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Grant wins presidential election, defeating Horatio Seymor
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In 1868 Ulysses S. Grant was elected president. He was very popular in the North as a war hero. Many historians blame Grant for the corruptionof his administration. He had neither the vision nor the sense of duty to tackle the difficult challenges the nation faced. -
Congress passes Fifteenth Amendment granting African Americans the right to vote.
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An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibiting the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” -
Congress passes Ku Klux Klan Acts to protect black voting rights in the south.
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Also known as the Enforcement Act, was a response to the secret societies bent on restoring white supremacy by intimidating blacks who sought to exercise their political right. This act made interference with voting rights a federal crime and established provisions for government supervision of elections. -
Grant re-elected president, defeating Horace Greeley, candidate of Liberal Republicans and Democrats.
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Grant wont popular vote in the 1872 election and became president on what was his second term. Horace Greeley died before the electoral college could vote. Greeley was also part of what was called the Liberal Republican party. This party was set up by republicans who could not tolerate Grants corruption or had other grievances against his administration and decided to break away and form their own party. -
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Congress passes Specie Resumption Act
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During the Civil War greenbacks, or paper money was printed by the govenerment. Major question was brought up about weither or not to leave the paper money in circulation. Final Congress passed the Specoe Resumption Act which allowed the greenbacks to stay. -
Whiskey Ring scandal exposed
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In 1875, the public learned that federal revenue officals had conspired with distillers to defraud the government of millions of dollars in liquor taxes. -
Disputed presidential election resolved in favor of republican Hayes over Democrat Tilden
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During the 1876 election Republicans realized that if Hayes won the 3 southern states (South Carolina, Flordia, and Louisiana) that he would win by one vote. It was then decided that 7 democrates, 7 republican, and one independant party memeber would met and decide who would be given the votes. Eventually the independant person left and was replaced by a republican which ended up giving Hayes the victory. -
Compromise of 1877 ends military intervention in the south and causes fall of the last radical governments.
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In the Compormise of 1877 Republican leaders allowed the following:
-To withdraw federal soldiers from their remaining positions in the South
-To enact federal legislation that would spur industrialization in the South
-To appoint Democrats to patronage positions in the South
-To appoint a Democrat to the president’s cabinet.
All this was in order to have R. Hayes to become president.
