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Reconstruction
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10% Plan
Ten pecent of the people that voted needed to swear allegience to the Union in order to be allowed back into the Union. -
Loncoln Vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
This bill said that the South had to accept the fact that slavery ended and that African-American men had the right to vote. It also said that more than half of the state had to take a loyalty oath. -
Lincoln Re-Elected
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Congress Creates Freedmen's Bureau
This helped former slaves become full citizens. They gave them food, clothes, schools, and they helped them find their family members. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomatox Court House - Civil War Ends
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Lincoln Assasinated; Johnson Becomes president
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13th Amendment Approved and Ratified by Congress
This Amendment stated that slaves would be set free and no person could be sold or seperated from their families. -
Johnson Declares Reconstruction Complete
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Mississippi Enacts First Black Codes
Made former slaves second class citizens. It denied them the right to vote, it made punishments more severe for them, and it denied them to be able to serve on juries. -
Radical Republicans
Radical rebublicans are very extreme republicans. They were very against slavery and they wanted blacks to to be equal. The danger the pose is they do not want to let the confederates off the hook. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The first reconstruction act split the confederate states into 5 districts and assigned them a northern general who protected it. -
Johnson Impeached
Johnson was impeached because the union was very tense, there was political tenision, and people did not like the way he was governing. -
14th AMendment Ratified
The 14th amendment said that anyone that is born or was born in the US is a citizen. -
Ulysses S. Grant Elected
He withdrew troops from the south and he was a good president. He tried his best to rebuild the nation. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is when people farm on the land and get a share of the crops and they also get to stay on the land. -
15th Amendment Ratified
This granted African American men the right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
These protected the rights of African Americans. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
It removed voting and office holding restrictions on people that were in the 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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Compromise of 1877
Democrats agreed to not block Hayes election as long as the Republicans withdrew all troops from the South.
