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Lincoln sets forth 10 percent Reconstruction Plan
The 10 Percent Reconstruction Plan provided that once 10 percent or more of the voting population of any occupied state had taken oath, they were able to set up a loyal government. http://americancivilwar.com/north/lincoln_1863.jpg Title /tuckahoe.wikispaces.com/file/view/t029116a.jpg/30553731/t029116a.jpg -
Wade-Davis Bill passes Congress but is pocket-vetoed by Lincoln
Wade Davis Bill required 50 percent of the voters take an oath of future loyalty before the restoration process could began. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/images/1061.jpg -
Johnson moves to reconstruct the South on his own initiative
Johnson appointed governers that he thought would best represent the south in the states. http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/docs-pix/ajohnson.jpg -
Congress refuses to seat representatives and senators elected from states reestablished under presidential plan
Congress refused to seat the Unionists elected to the House and Senate from Louisiana and Arkansas. http://z.about.com/d/americanhistory/1/0/l/9/16_lincoln_1.jpg -
Johnson vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Bill
Johnson vetoes on the Freedmens Bureau Bill, a temporary agency set up to aid former slaves, shocked moderate Republicans. http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/50/71550-004-FE1A07AC.jpg -
Johnson vetoes Civil Rights Act; it passes over his veto
Even though Johnson tried to veto the Civil Rights it won the two-thirds majority necessary to overide his veto. Johnson was now at odds wih Congress. http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/50/71550-004-FE1A07AC.jpg -
Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment
The Republican majority on Capital Hill passed the Fourteenth Amendment. This amendment gave federal govennment responsibilty for guaranteeing equal rights under the law to all Americans. http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/sespics/20562.jpg -
Republicans increase their congressional majority in the fall elections
The Republican majority in Congress increased to a solid two-thirds in both houses and the Radical wing of the party gained strength. http://lordwhatsmymotivation.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/elephant.jpg -
First Reconstruction Act is passed over Johson's veto
The act placed the South under the rule of the army be reorganizing the region into five military districts. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/impeach/Cartoon-Situation.jpg -
Grant wins presidential election,defeating Horatio Seymour
Grant, who was popular general, won the election with the help of the Republican-dominated southern states. http://gryphonscry.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/ulysses-s-grant.jpg -
Southern blacks vote and serve in constitutional conventions
For the first time blacks were allowed to vote and serve in constitutional converntions. This act angered many. http://amy6dean.myweb.uga.edu/images/Nastx_black_suffrage.jpg -
Johnson is impeached; he avoides conviction by one vote.
Johnson had a skilled defence team and avoided conviction. He pledged to enforce Reconstruction Acts and held to his promise in his last months in office. http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/5600/5678/johnson_impeachment_1_lg.gif -
Congress passes Fifteenth Amendment granting African Americans the right to vote
Even thought the amendment was passed states were still able to require test that eliminated most African Amercians from voting. http://amhist.ist.unomaha.edu/module_files/FifteenthAmendmentFirstVoting.jpg -
Congress passes Ku Klux Klan Acts to protect black voting rights in the South
The Klu Klux Klan was a group that terrorized blacks. Faced with the overthrow of the southern Republican party, Congress and Grant were forced to pass the Force Acts, also knownas the Ku Klux Klan Acts. http://maaadddog.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/ku-klux-klan.jpg -
Grant re-elected president, defeating Horace Greeley, candidate of Liberal Republicans and Democrats
When Grant was elected again for another term as president, some Republicans broke with Grant and formed a third party. http://gryphonscry.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/ulysses-s-grant.jpg -
Financial panic plunges nation into depression
The depression led to a revival of agitation to inflate the curency. Debt ridden farmers were the driving force behind the soft money movement. http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Zk8LXrRmJ3g/SgMLMMXNW0I/AAAAAAAAAGc/9_e2Wa-C_LY/money.jpg.jpeg -
Congress passes Specie Resumption Act
This act provided for a limited reduction of greenbacks leading to full resumption of specie payments by January 1, 1879. http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/csl0761l.jpg -
"Whisky Ring" scandal exsposed
In 1875 the public learned that federal revenue officals had conspired distillers to defraud the goverment of millions of dollars in liqure taxes. http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/csl0773l.jpg -
Disputed presidential election resolved in favor of Republican Hayes over Democrat Tilden
The elelection was undecided for months untill Republican leaders negotiated secretly with conservative southern Democrats to ensure the win for Hayes. http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/images/hayes-150-se-9aug05.jpg -
Compromise of 1877 ends military intervention in the south and causes fall of the last Radical governments
When the last troops were withdrawn from the south a deal was struck known as The Compromise of 1877. What it agrees to is in dispute but it was understood that Hayes would be president. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/compromise-with-south.jpg