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Reconstruction
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Lincon announces Ten Percent Plan
A state could be readmitted if 10 percent of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the Union and agreed to the end of slavery. -
Lincons re-election
Lincon was re-elected in the reconstruction period -
Lincon vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
lincon wanted the southern states to join the union -
13 Ammendment approved and ratified by Congress
It provids freedom for blacks -
Congress creates Freedmens bureau
to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War -
Lee Surenders at Appomattox Court House civil war ends
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lincon assasinated johnson becomes president
lincon was killed after the war -
first black codes
important because they made blacks not able to purchase land. -
johnson declares reconstruction complete
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radical republicans
They did not like slavery and campained to secure rights for blacks -
1st 2nd 3rd reconstruction acts
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sharecropping
when you rent out your land or house to someone else -
15th amendment ratifyed
prohibits black voting rites -
Freedmen’s Bureau terminated Amnesty Act of 1872
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Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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Disputed election
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Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends Compromise of 1877
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enforcement acts
were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.
