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Lincoln sets forth 10 percent Reconstruction plan
This plan pardoned all Southerns, except a few Confederate classes, who would take an oath pledging to the Union.
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Wade -Davis Bill passes Congress but is pocket-vetoed by Lincoln
In the Wade-Davis Bill, before the restoration process could start, 50 percent of voters had to take an oath of loyalty.
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Johnson moves to reconstruct the South on his own initiative
This caused the most serious crisis in the history between the legislative and executive branches in government.
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Congress refuses to seat representatives and senators elected from states reestablished under presidential plan
Instead of recognizing Johnson's plan, Congress established their own committee to review the Reconstruction Plan and set conditions.
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Johnson vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Bill
The Freedmen's Bureau was an angency that organized to aid former slaves in legal and everyday life.
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Johnson vetoes Civil Rights Act; it passes over his veto
Johnson was the minority in what he thought to be people of his own party. Congress had never overridden a presidential veto.
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Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment
This amendment gave the federal government responsibility to, under the law, guarantee equal rights.
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Republicans increase their congressional majority in the fall elections
With Congress so powerful, they were now in the right position to suggest their own Reconstruction Plan.
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First Reconstruction Act is passed over Johnson's veto
This placed the South under army rule by organizing into five military districts.
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Johnson is impeached; he avoids conviction by one vote
During the impeachment trial, Johnson tried to plead his case by pledging to enfore Reconstruction Acts.
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Southern blacks vote and serve in constitutional conventions
Not always did blacks get to vote under certain laws, some states still severely beat and abused blacks that tried to vote.
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Grant wins presidential election, defeating Horatio Seymour
Grant won the election with over half of the electoral votes over Seymour and the states that did not vote combined.
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Congress passes Fifteenth Amendment, granting African Americans the right to vote
This amendment ratified in 1870 allowed black male citizens the right to vote in every state.
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Congress passes Ku Klux Klan Acts to protect black voting rights in the South
After this act was put into effect, many KKK members were arrested by the military, but most of them never made it to trial.
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Grant re-elected president, defeating Horace Greeley, candidate of Liberal Republicans and Democrats
Grant won the election after all, but Greeley died before the electoral votes were cast.
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Financial panic plunges nation into depression
The price for renunion as a country were much too high for lower class Southerners.
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Congress passes Specie Resumption Act
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"Whiskey Ring" scandal exposed
Orville E. Babcock was found as a member of the Whiskey Ring but was never convicted because of his close relationship with Grant.
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Disputed presidential election resolved in favor of Republican Hayes over Democrat Tilden
South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana caused the split in the votes. The Republicans came out on top with a win.
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Compromise of 1877 ends military intervention in the South and causes fall of the last Radical governments
The Compromise was a deal between Republican leaders and southern Democrats.
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