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Reconstruction
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Lincoln's 10% Plan
Lincoln's 10% plan said that if 10% of voters swore allegiance (Voters in a Confederate Sate) to the Union and agreed to the end of slavery, they'd be readmitted to the Union -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
Lincoln vetoed a bill that would've made all Southerners deny supporting a rebellion and allow African Americans to vote. Lincoln said it was too harsh. -
Lincoln Re-elected
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Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
A wellfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens. -
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House
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Lincoln assasinated; Johnson becomes president
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress..
The 13th Amendment abolished all slavery in the United Sates -
Mississippi enacts first Black Code
The Black Codes were laws that made African Americans 2nd class citizens -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical Republicans
The Radical Republicans want to protect the African Americans. This is a danger for Reconstruction because it could mess up keeping Southeners in the Union. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The 1st Reconstruction Act enacts a new Constitution to be approved by Congress. -
Johnson impeached
Johnson was impeached because he broke the law of Tenure of Office. -
Uylsses S. Grant elected
The Northern hero of the Civil War had a more moderate path for Reconstruction -
14th Amendment Ratified
The 14th Amendment undoes legal concessions that had been made to slavery since the beggining of the Constitution. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is when a landowner rents a piece of land to a farmer in exchange for a share of the crop the farmer grows.The landowner also provides seed and tools on credit, and the charecropper repays the debt after harvesting and selling his/her crop. -
15th Amendment Ratified
The 15th Amendment extended voting writes to African American men. -
Enforcement Acts
The Enofrcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes that protected African American voting rights. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
Allowed many former Confederates to run for public office -
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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Comprimise of 1877
The Democrats agreed to accept the ballots that made Hayes the winner in exchange for the Republicans agreeing to withdrawl federal troops from the South
