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Lincoln announces Ten Percent
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. -
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Reconstruction
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The Freedmen's Bureau
This bill required the states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African American men the right to vote. -
Lincol veoes Wade-Davis Bill
This bill required the states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African American men the right to vote. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated: Johnson becomes president
He was assassinated, or murdered, by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and passionate Confederate supporter. -
Mississippi enacts first Black Code
These were laws that made African Americans second-class citizens. Black Codes included laws that denied African Americans the right to vote. -
13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
meant they were no longer enslaved and could no longer be owned as property. Nor could they be sold and separated from their families -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical Republicans
They also believed that Johnson’s policies encouraged Southern states to resist accepting African Americans as full citizens. -
1st, 2nd, 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The Reconstruction Acts also required former Confederates to take oaths of loyalty to the United States before they could vote. The Reconstruction Acts also required former Confederates to take oaths of loyalty to the United States before they could vote. -
14th Amendment ratified
The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. -
Sharecropping
a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land -
15th Amedment ratified
It passed the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which stated:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Enforcement Acts
the Civil Rights Act of 1870 or First Ku Klux Klan Act, or Force Act was a United States federal law written to empower the President with the legal authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War -
Freedmen's 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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Compimise of 1877
unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era. -
Johnson impeached
The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson's removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history.