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Lincoln sets forth the 10% Reconstruction plan
The Ten Percent Reconstruction Plan stated that once 10% or more of a voting population in any occupied state had taken oath, they were athorized to set up a loyal government. -
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The Agony of Reconstruction
The Ten Percent Reconstruction Plan stated that once 10% or more of a voting population in any occupied state had taken oath, they were athorized to set up a loyal government. -
Wade-Davis Bill passes Congress but is pocket-vetoed by Lincoln
Congress created the Wade-Davis Bill after refusing to reconize Lincoln's 10% reconstruction act. The bill in its final did not require black sufferage, and Lincoln pocket vetoed by refusing to sign the bill before Congress ajourned -
Johnson moves to reconstruct the South on his own initiave
Johnson appointed North Carolina and other states under provisional govenors to call constituional conventions -
Congress refuses to seat represenatives and senators elected from states reestablished under presidential plan
With a Republican president and a Democratic congress, the reconstructed states in the south passed black codes, still restricting slave rights and allowing some slavery to continue in order to keep the Republican party numbers up. Instead of endorsing Johnson's work, established a joint commitee to review the Reconstruction policy and set futher conditions for readmission of the seceded states. -
Republicans increase their congressional majority in fall elections
Many Republicans become radicals on the issue of slavery. the election of 18666 basically became a referendum on the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Johnson vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Bill
Freedmen's Bureau set up aid to help former slaves. When Johnson vetoed, it shocked mondern Republicans, saying it ensured a wide opposition to Johnson's Reconstruction plan. -
Johnson vetoes Civil Rights Act; it passes over his veto
The Civil Rights Act won the two-thirds majority necessary to override his veto. Never before had Congress overridden a presidential veto. This showed that the president was hopelessly at odds with his own party. -
Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment gave the federal government responsibility for guaranteeing equal rights under the law to all Americans. -
First Reconstruction Act is passed over Johnson's veto
Placed the south under rule of the army by reorganizing the region into five military districts. -
Southern blacks vote and serve in constitutional convestions
Republicans thought this would ensure "loyal" men would dominate new governments, because blacks would vote in order to pretect themselves from white supermacists'. -
Grant wins presidential election, defeating Horatio Seymour
Grant, an already well known general, won the election with the help of southern Republican states. -
Johnson is impeached; he avoids conviction by one vote
Johnson clearly dissaproved of new policies, and was against crongress, wanting policies to be run his own way. He dismissed officeholders with radical beliefs, and Congress started passing laws to limit presidential powers of Reconstruction matters. -
Congress passes Fifteenth Amendment, granting African Americans the right to vote
Specifically, passed by Congress in 1869 and prohibited any state from denying a male citizen the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Ku Klux Klan Acts to protect black voting rights in the South
The Ku Klux Klan visited the cabins of active black Republicans, threatening, beating, and even murdering them to protect white's voting rights and pursuading blacks to vote Democrat. -
Grant re-elected president, defeating Horace Greeley, candidate of Liberal Republicans and Democrats
Greeley failed to inspire enthusiam from lifelong supporters and most Republicans stuck with Grant, wanting to prevent the return of ex-rebels to the south. -
Financial panic plunges nation into depression
The federal government looked to retire $356 millon in green-backs and change the currency to hard-money. When the economy fell in 1873, it led to an inflation of the currency. -
Congress passes Specie Resumption Act
The act provided for a limited reduction of greenbacks leading to full resumption of specie payments by Janurary 1, 1879. -
"Whiskey Ring" scandal exposed
The "Whiskey Ring" was a group of distellers and goverment workers who defrauded the federal government of whiskey taxes. Over $3 millon in taxes was recovered and 110 convicted of the fraud. -
Disputed presidential election resolved in favor of Republican Hayes over Democrat Tilden
the outcome of the election remained undecided for months as three southern states contested controll by the Republicans- South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana. -
Compromise of 1877 ends military intervention in the South and causes fall of the last Radical governments
