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Reconstruction
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LIncoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A state could be readmitted if 10 percent of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the union and agreed to to end slavery -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
Required states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African American men the right to vote. -
Lncoln re-elected
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
African Americans weren't able to be enslaved and could no longer be property -
Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
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
Laws that mad african americans second class citizens -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical Rebulicans
A fraction of American politicans within the rebuplican party -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
Military reconstruction act laws that divided the south into 5 military districts each goverend by a general of the union army. -
Johnson Impeached
He violated the Tenure of Office Act -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
He had a more moderate path of reconstruction. He called for the withdraw of union troops from the south -
14th Amendment Ratified
Citzen rights and equal protection of laws for all -
Sharecropping
Lets people, like slaves, use their land in return they have to give them some of the crops produced. -
15th Amendemnt ratified
Gvies African Americans the right to vote -
Enforcement Acts
3 bills that were passed which protected african americans the right to vote -
Freedmans Bureau terminated
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Amnesty Act of 1872
allowed many former confedartes to run for public office -
Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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Disputed election
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Haynes declared president; Reconstruction ends
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Compromise of 1877
Pulled federal troops out of the south and ended reconstruction
