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Reconstruction
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Lincoln Announces Ten Percent Plan
During the war, President Lincoln wanted to further weaken the Confederacy by bringing confederate states back into the Union. So he came up with a plan that let a state be readmitted if 10% of voters swore allegiance to the Union and agreed to end slavery. -
Lincoln Re-elected
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Lincoln Veteos Wade-Davis Bill
The Wade-Davis Bill requires 50% of a states male voters to take an oath that they had never voluntarily supported the confederacy. President Lincoln thought this was too harsh -
Congress Creates Freedmens Bureau
A Wellfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become citizens. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House – Civil War ends
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Lincoln assasinated; Johnson becomes president
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Mississippi enacts first Black Code
The Black codes were laws that made African Americans second hand citizens. Included laws about blacks not being able to vote, serve in juries, or marry white people. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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13th Amendment Ratified
The 13th amendment guarantees freedom for blacks. -
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans were people who insisted that the federal government protect the civil and social rights of newly freed African Americans. They favored harsh treatment for traitorous Confederates -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The first recinstruction act split the south into five military districts. -
President Johnson Impeached
President Johnson appointed General Lorenzo Thomas as secretary of war, who Congress didnt like. -
14th Amendment Ratified
The 14th amendment undid all legal concessions that had been made to slavey since the constitution was written. -
Ulysses S. Grant Elected
Being 46, Grant was the youngest president. He pushed through the ratification of 15th amendment and established national parks service. -
Sharecropping
Landowner lets a tenant use their land fpr a share of crops because there wasnt much money. -
15th Amendment Ratified
Lets black people vote. -
Enforcement Acts
Protected african americans right to vote, hold office, serve in juries, and receive equal protection of laws. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
Lets most secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War vote and hold office. -
Freedmen’s Bureau terminated
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Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
A civi rights bill that guaranteed freedom of access, to the "full and equal enjoyment" of many public facilities to all people -
Disputed Election
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End of Reconstruction: Hayes bedomes president
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Compromise of 1877
fixed a dispute between tiden-- hayes presidential election.
