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Lincoln sets forth 10 percent Reconstruction plan
The Ten Percent Plan promised that once ten or more percent of the voting population had taken an oath of allegiance to the union and acknowledged the legality http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/images/Lincoln-portrait.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/alincolnbio.htm&usg=___qBra9WufXzWA1AamIVwjTij9jo=&h=402&w=325&sz=18&hl=en&start=5&tbnid=95R7froM6xjc_M:&tbnh=124&tbnw=100&prev=/images?q=lincoln&gbv=2&ndsp=20&hl=en&safe=active&sa=G -
Wade-Davis Bill passes Congress but in pocket-vetoed by Lincoln
The Wade-Davis Bill was congress' reconstruction bill that required at least 50 percent of the voting population to take an oath of future loyalty to them before the restorat http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://amhist.ist.unomaha.edu/module_files/Wade%20Davis%20Bill2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://amhist.ist.unomaha.edu/module_files/&usg=__mZxY3OFTwrSmSeCoXTeZqiJdiO0=&h=791&w=500&sz=77&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=EDNnrK8VCqPTKM:&tbnh=143&tbnw=90&prev=/images?q=wade-+davis+bill&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=active -
Johnson moves to recontruct the South on his own initiative
Johnson placed states under provisional governors who were responsible for calling constitutional conventions http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.easypedia.gr/el/images/shared/7/7c/Andrew_Johnson.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.easypedia.gr/el/articles/a/n/d/%CE%95%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%B1~Andrew_Johnson.jpg_bf11.html&usg=__XScQlzTDsXAkvcaYcoHqmn2Fytg=&h=608&w=577&sz=88&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=_glc0JccN0wDiM:&tbnh=136&tbnw=129&prev=/images?q=andrew+johnson&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=active&sa=X -
Congress refuses to seat representatives and senators elected from states reestablished under presidantial plan
Congress would not seat southern delegation and established a joint commitee to review Reconstruction policy and set further conditions for sece http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wppl.org/wphistory/EdwardGurney/SwearingInHouseOfRepresentatives1962.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wppl.org/wphistory/EdwardGurney/index.html&usg=__zoOci87e_aXoBOPCYhcxoB_aeWI=&h=338&w=432&sz=43&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=3DW9SKLg07oRJM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=126&prev=/images?q=representatives&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=active&sa=X -
Johnson vetoes Fredman's Bureau Bill
The Bill presented a temporary agency that aided former slaves by helping them obtain land, education, and legal help. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab11a.gif&imgrefurl=http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab11.htm&usg=__46Na_ay6ri8EoPwsv3GEob4J9cs=&h=222&w=350&sz=92&hl=en&start=19&tbnid=SsWVr7sUrcPIvM:&tbnh=76&tbnw=120&prev=/images?q=freedmen%27s+bureau&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=active&sa=X -
Johnson vetoes Civil Rights Act; passes over his veto
The Civil Rights Act ensured more opposition to Johnson's Reconstruction plan. It was the first time Congress had ever overridden a presidential veto. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/images/LBJ-CivilRightsAct.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/aboutfheo/history.cfm&usg=__qUkN-XfqNFMHLcn16pIS1vGdahA=&h=346&w=512&sz=44&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=ENODRnLy0MUwoM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=131&prev=/images?q=civil+rights+acts&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=active&sa=G -
Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment
The Amendment gave the federal goverment the power to guarantee equal rights to all Americans under law. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://kellenebishop.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/14th-amendment1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://kellenebishop.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/the-heartstrings-that-will-bankrupt-%E2%80%9Cus%E2%80%9D/&usg=__oCQes6foGxvWbiAFdypeCa9C64A=&h=320&w=320&sz=27&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=AZM4N0wQdswCeM:&tbnh=118&tbnw=118&prev=/images?q=fourteenth+amendment&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=active&sa=X -
Republican increase their congressional majority in the fall elections
Johnson retaliated by dismissing officers who believed in Radical Reconstruction and some Radical generals were transferred and replaced by conservative Democrats. http://www.wvculture.org/history/government/1866election01.jpg -
First Recontruction Act is passed over Johnson's veto
The amendment was designed to grant citizenship and protect the rights of recently freed slaves. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jeffstarkbooks.com/files/reconstruction%20act.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jeffstarkbooks.com/&usg=__kR_wJmeHNJkR0LCgjLVotWjfo80=&h=1755&w=1275&sz=289&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=XtacOAhx-nMx7M:&tbnh=150&tbnw=109&prev=/images?q=reconstruction+act+1867&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=active&sa=X -
Johnson is impeached; he avoids conviction by one vote
Attorneys for the president claimed that the president could only be impeached if he had commited a crime. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/docs-pix/impeach.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/march.htm&usg=__7XCym5Gpju7BbqZWD_eyHqjjb1w=&h=406&w=594&sz=107&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=XswWheUy2hd2bM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=135&prev=/images?q=impeachment+of+johnson+1888&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=active&sa=X -
Southern blacks voted and serve in constitutional concentions
Most African Americans who served in state or national offices during the Reconstruction proved to be more competent and have more integrity than whites who also served at the time. http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/Freedmen_Voting__South_Carolina__1868.jpg -
Grant wins presidential election, defeating Horatio Seymour
Many people blamed Grant for the failure the nation went through while he was president. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/upload/Seymour_HHPHp651_sm.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/content_inside.asp?ID=68&subjectID=3&usg=__lIp9qserCS6jPZ4VOzmudLZtkR8=&h=125&w=100&sz=8&hl=en&start=17&tbnid=oC3-UUEtLf0zrM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=72&prev=/images?q=Grant+wins+presidential+election,+defeating+Horatio+Seymour&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=active&sa=G -
Congress passes Fiftheenth Amendment, granting African Americans the right to vote
States could still limit the amount of people who voted by giving literacy tests, property conditions, and creating poll taxes. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hartford-hwp.com/HBHP/exhibit/05/15-a.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hartford-hwp.com/HBHP/exhibit/05/index.html&usg=__FV9ersKBAwZutsnLO7UgY_BAtwc=&h=395&w=278&sz=49&hl=en&start=6&tbnid=XFvTVTruxW1xjM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=87&prev=/images?q=fifteenth+amendment&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=active&sa=X -
Congress passes Ku Klux Klan Acts to protect the black voting rights in the South
The Ku Klux Klan intimidated African Americans who wanted to become involved in politics and believed in white supremacy http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkkk2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkkk.htm&usg=__HJXhn3mY5M426OSkdr8-gkSBWfM=&h=316&w=543&sz=35&hl=en&start=6&tbnid=i-aZQKys2H1ndM:&tbnh=77&tbnw=132&prev=/images?q=Congress+passes+Ku+Klux+Klan+Acts+to+protect+the+black+voting+rights+in+the+South&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=active&sa=G -
Grant re-elected president, defeating Horace Greeley, candidate of Liberal Republicans and Deomcrats
Grant won the election because many Republicans did not want an ex-rebel to have power in the south. Also, Greenley died before the electoral college could vote. http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/greeley.jpg -
Financial panic plunges nation into depression
The depression lasted five years and nearly three million Americans lost their jobs, It ultimately led to the Greenback Party. http://www.philadelphia-reflections.com/images/panic-button.jpg -
Congress passes Specie Resumption Act
Some wanted to keep using "soft money" or greenbacks, while others wanted to go back to http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://hangrightpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/r-hayes-1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://hangrightpolitics.com/2007/10/28/the-americanpresidentspart19rutherfordhayes/&usg=__8mPHqpUjn7T7se69Bzz3ZomlRUM=&h=600&w=504&sz=112&hl=en&start=21&tbnid=PpNdvG2HYB5vtM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=113&prev=/images?q=Congress+passes+Specie+Resumption+Act&gbv=2&ndsp=20&hl=en&safe=active&sa=N&start=20 -
"Whiskey Ring" scandal exposed
The "Whiskey Ring" scandal occured when federal officials worked with distillers to help undo the fraud that http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.harpweek.com/Images/SourceImages/CartoonOfTheDay/March/031876m.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.american-presidents.org/2007/10/whiskey-ring-scandal.html&usg=__X3KzJy6XXGgjUOyl8Eqsl8l7HIE=&h=480&w=460&sz=57&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=hnOKqQae8Qr6TM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=124&prev=/images?q=%22Whiskey+Ring%22+scandal+exposed&gbv=2&ndsp=20&hl=en&safe=active&sa=G -
Disputed presidential election resolved in favor of Republican Hayes over Deomorat Tilden
In the beginning, the electoral commision was represented by 7 democrats, 7 republicans, and one independent party. The independent member resigned and his place was then filled by a republican. The houses were then uneven. http://www.teachersparadise.com/ency/en/media/b/bc/electoralcollege1876_large.png -
Compromise of 1877 ends military intervention of the South and causes fall of the last Radical governments
The South was under the control of white democrats and the trauma of the war and Reconstruction demolished any ideas of competition with white Southerners. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://claver.gprep.org/fac/sjochs//end%20of%20reconstruction-1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://americanpicturelinks.com/19rh.htm&usg=__oDXiNFH3tV6MFdLmQ-6I0X4aJGI=&h=986&w=572&sz=454&hl=en&start=5&tbnid=90OP72SW7tPz6M:&tbnh=149&tbnw=86&prev=/images?q=Compromise+of+1877+of+the+South&gbv=2&hl=en&safe=active
