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Reconstruction
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Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan
a state can be readmitted into the Union if 10% of it's voters swore loyalty to the Union -
Lincoln Vetoes the Wade-Davis Bill
requires the states to accept the end of slavery and to let all African American men vote. It required more than half of a state’s voters to sign a loyalty oath before they could be readmitted into the Union -
Lincoln Re-Elected
Lincoln is elected to a second term. -
Congress Creates Freedman's Bureau
an agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens -
Civil War Ends
Robert Lee surrendered his Confederate army to the Union at the Appomattox courthouse in Virginia -
Lincoln Assassinated, Johnson becomes President
Lincoln was shot, Andrew Johnson became president -
Mississippi Enacts First Black Code
Mississippi enacts first Black Code, these are a series of laws that limit black freedoms and degrade them to a slave-like level -
Johnson Declares Reconstruction Complete
Johnson declared that Reconstruction was complete, this outraged Radical Republicans who refused to recognize new Southern governments -
13th Amendment Approved and Ratified
Abolished Slavery -
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans wanted the rebels to be punished heavily, they opposed Reconstruction -
1st, 2nd, 3rd Reconstruction Acts
Divided South into 5 military districts -
Johnson Impeached
For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. His Reconstuction plan was horrible. -
Ulysses S. Grant Elected
He was, as the symbol of Union victory during the Civil War, their logical candidate for President in 1868. -
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 farming that developed in the South after the Civil War, when landowners, many of whom had formerly held slaves, lacked the cash to pay wages to farm laborers, many of whom were former slaves. -
15th Amendment Ratified
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
Passed during the Reconstruction Era to combat attacks upon the suffrage rights of African Americans. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
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
Congress, preoccupied with other national interests and responding to the continued hostility of white Southerners, terminated the bureau in July 1872. -
Congress Passes Civil Rights Act
guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury service. -
Disputed Election
Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted. -
Hayes Declared President; Reconstruction Ends
Rutherford B. Hayes won the presidency -
Compromise 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.
