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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A state could be readmitted if 10 percent of the voters in that state swore a Pledge of Allegiance to the Union and agreed to end slavery. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The bill required the states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African African men the right to vote. Called for more than half of a states voters to sign a loyalty oath before that state can be readmitted. -
Lincoln re-elected
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Congress creates Freedmans Bureau
Made to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. -
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War ends
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Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Lincoln Assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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Mississippi enacts first Black Code
these are codes that make segregation and turn african americans into second classs people. -
13th Ammendment approved and ratified by Congress
Formally abolished slavery in the United States. -
Radical Republicans
They were a wing of the Republican Party organized around an uncompromising opposition to slavery before and during the Civil War and a fierce campaign to secure rights for freed slaves during reconstruction. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction acts
It split the states into five military districts, each under the control of a Northern General whose responsibility was to protect life and property. The First Reconstruction Act also demanded the need for new state delegates and constitutions, the ratification of the Fourteenth amendment, and of equal rights for each citizen. -
Johnson impeached
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was the result of political disputes and the rupture of ideologies in the aftermath of the American Civil War. It arose from uncompromised beliefs and a contest for power in a nation struggling with reunification. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
He ended recostruction and restored the union. -
14th ammendment ratified
granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
Sharecropping
A system in which 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 sometimes tools on credit. -
15th ammendment ratified
The 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws. -
Freedman's Bureau terminated
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Amnesty act of 1872
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. -
Lame-duck Congress passes Civil rights act
in a last-ditch effort to protect what remained of Reconstruction, managed to pass a civil-rights bill that sought to guarantee freedom of access, regardless of race, to the "full and equal enjoyment" of many public facilities. Citizens were given the right to sue for personal damages -
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. -
Compromise of 1877
It was a deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended Reconstruction. -
Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends
the compromise of 1877 ended reconstruction
