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Lincoln Announces Ten Percent Plan
If 10 percent of a country voters swore a loyalty oath to the Union and to end slavery then the statei could be readmitted. -
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Reconstuction
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LIncoln Re-Elected
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Lincoln Vetos Wade- Davis Bill
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Wade -Davis BIll
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13th Amendment approved and ratfied by congress
Abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. -
Congress creates Freedmnas Bureau
U.S Federal Government agency established in 1865 to aid freed slaves in the south during the REconstruction era. -
Lee surrenders at Appottamox Court House - Civil War ends.
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Lincoln assassinated ; Johnson becomes President
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Johnson Declares Reconstruction Complete
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Mississppi enacts first black codes
These laws had the of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of making them to work in a labor economy based on low wages. -
Radical Republicans
Republican Party organized around an stubborn resistance to slavery before and during the Civil War.There plan was to reconstruct the South after the Civil War. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
Divided the South into five military districts in which the authority of the army commander was supreme. -
Johnson Impeached
he had formulated a plan of reconstruction that would be lenient toward the defeated South as it rejoined the Union. This policy did not agree with the Radical Republicans in Congress, -
14th Amendment Ratified
It granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, which included former slaves recently freed. -
Ulysses S.Grant Elected
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Share-cropping
Sharecropping is a system of which a landowner allows a person to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land. -
15 Amendment ratified
It was granting the right for black men to be able to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
three bills passed by the United States Congress. They were criminal codes which protected blacks right to vote, to receive equal protection of laws. -
Amnesty act of 1872
United States federal law that removed voting restrictions against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil war -
Freedman Bureau Terminated
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Lame-Duck congress passes civil rights acts
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Disputed election
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Hayes declared President ; Reconstructed ends
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Compromise of 1877
unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South.
