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Lincoln sets forth 10 percent Reconstruction plan
The plan was a series of acts that nullified the president's initiatives and organized the South a new way.
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Wade-Davis Bill passes Congress but is pocket-vetoed by Lincoln
The Bill required that 50% of the voting population take an oath of loyalty before the restoration could begin.
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Johnson moves to reconstruct the South on his own initiative
Johnson appointed North Carolina and some other states governors, who were mostly southern politicians who opposed the Southern's seccesion
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Congress refuses to seat representatives and senators elected from states reestablished under presidential plan
Instead of backing Johnson, Congress established a joint commitee to review the Reconstruction policy.
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Johnson vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Bill
When Johnson vetoed this Bill, which passed Congress with great Republican support, the disagreement became to huge to forgive.
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Johnson vetoes Civil Rights Act; it passes over his veto
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Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment
It gave the federal government in charge of equal rights to all Americans
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Republicans increase their congressional majority in the fall elections
because the Northern voters were angry about the southern inflexibility and the president's antics.
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First Reconstruction Act is passed over Johnson's veto
it placed the South under rule of the army by organizing the union into 5 military districts
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Johnson is impeached; he avoids conviction by one vote
because seven Republican senators broke with their party and voted for discharge.
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Southern blacks vote and serve in constitutional conventions
Although not enough southern whites were willing to accept this.
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Grant wins in presidential election, defeating Horatio Seymour
He won with the help of the Republican-dominated southern states.
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Congress passes Fifteenth Amendment granting African Americans the right to vote
It's a Republican efforts to make equal rights for blacks.
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Congress passes Klu Klux Klan Acts to protect black voting rights in the south
Called the Force acts, made interference with voting rights a federal crime.
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Grant re-elected president, defeating Horace Greeley, canidate of Liberal Republicans and Democrates
A heavy black turnout enabled the Republicans to hold onto many southern states
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Financial panic plunges nation into depression
Which showed that the Republican's state aid to private enterprise failed miserably.
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Congress passes Specie Resumption Act
Which provided for a limited reduction of greenbacks leading to full resumption of specie payments.
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"Whiskey Ring" scandal exposed
When the puplic learned that federal revenue officials had conspired with distillers to defraud the government of millions of dollars in liquor taxes.
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Disputed presidential election resolved in favor of Republican Hayes over Democrat Tilden
Because of the Compromise of 1877.
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Compromise of 1877 ends military intervention on the South and causes fall of the last Radical governments
It also ended the election and gave the presidency to Hayes
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