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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
Lincoln offered a presidental pardon and amnesty to any rebel who vowed loyalty to the United States and its laws involving slavery -
Lincoln reelected
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Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
A bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans , Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Represenative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland -
13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States & Niether slavery nor involuntary servitude,except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted , shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction -
Congress creates Freedmen´s Bureau
Freedmenś Bureau helped former black slaves and poor whites in the south in the aftermath of the U.S Cival War -
Lee surrenders
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Lincoln assassinated ; Johnson becomes president
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Mississippi enacts first Black Code
Laws passsed by southern states that restricted African Americans freedom, compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. -
Jhonson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical Republicans
Northern altruists industrialists, former Whigs , practical politicans etc. Danger they played in one reconstruction was they resisting Lincolns treatment -
1st 2nd & 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The 1st act applied to all the ex-Confederate states in the South, except Tennessee who had already ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. It split the states into five military districts, each under the control of a Northern General whose responsibility it was to protect life and property. -
Johnson impeached
The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson’s removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office Act. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Led Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Also worked to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery. -
14th Amendment ratified
Granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States which included former slaves recently freed. -
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 Amendment ratified
Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that 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
Three bills passed by the United States Congress. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans’ right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
Federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of the Confederacy. -
Freedmens'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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Compromise of 1877
A purported informal, 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.
