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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces the Ten Percent PLan
A state could be readmitted if 10 percent of its voters swore a loyalty to the Union and agreed to the end slavery. -
LIncoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The bill required states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African American men the right to vote. -
LIncoln reelected
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
It means that African-Americans were no longer enslaved and could no longer be owned as property. -
Congress creates the Freedman's Bureau
It was a welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House-Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated;Johnson becomes president
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Mississippi enacts first Black Code
They are laws that made African-Americans second class citizerns. -
Johnson declares Reconstruction complete
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Radical Republicans
They want to protect African Americans from violence. They are against Reconstruction pretty much. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The 1st Reconstruction Act is to enact a new constitution to be approved by Congress. -
Johnson impeached
He was impeached because he didn't follow the laws. Congress accused him of a crime. -
14th Amendment Ratified
The purpose was to undo legal concessions that had been made to slavery since the writings of the Consitution. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
The Northern hero of the Civil War. He wanted a more moderate plan for Reconstruction. -
Sharecropping
A landowner lents a piece of land to a farmer in exchange for a share of the crop the farmer grows. -
15th Amendment Ratified
It says the rights of citizens to vote shall not be denied by the US or any state on account of race or color. -
Enforcement Acts
They were acts that were passed to protect African-American's right to vote,hold office, to serve on juries, and to recieve equal protection of laws. -
Freedman's Bureau terminated
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Amnesty Act of 1872
It allowed many former Confederates to run for public office, -
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
The Democrats agreed to accept the ballots that made Hayes the winner in exchange for the Republicans agreeing to withdraw the federal troops for the South.
