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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A state could be readmitted if 10% of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the union and agreed to end slavery. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The Wade-Davis Bill required the states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African American men the right to vote. -
Lincoln re-elected
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Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
Established by congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the south in the aftermath of the civil war. -
Lee surrenders at appomattox court house
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Lincln is assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
It meant African Americans were no longer enslaved and could not be owned as property -
Johnson Declares Reconstruction Complete
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Mississippi enacts first Black Code
Laws that made African Americans second-class citizens -
Radical Republicans
They were a wing of the republican party organized around an uncompromising opposition to slavery. The danger role they played in reconstruction was that they were opposing slavery. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
It was an act to provide a more efficient government of the rebel states. It determined that the states must ratify the 14th amendment in order to represented in congress -
Johnson Impeached
He was impeached because he wasnt following his own rules/laws -
14th Amendment ratified
It guaranteed equal protection of the law, they could not pass laws that explicitly discriminated against African Americans -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Ulysses S. Grant was the symbol for the Union victory during the civil war. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping was a system of agriculture where a landowner allows a tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of the land -
15th Amendment Ratified
This amendment allowed freed slaves the right to vote -
Enforcement Acts
They were to combat the attacks on the suffrage rights of the African Americans from state officials and groups like the KKK. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
The amnesty act was a federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualifiations against most of the secessionists -
Freedmens Bureau terminated
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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
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Compromise of 1877
It was an umwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S presidential election
