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Reconstruction
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Lincoln Announces Ten Percent Plan
A new state will be readmitted if 10% of the voters swear on an oath to end slavery -
lincoln re-elected
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Lincoln Vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
This bill required the states to end slavery and let the African Americans have a right to vote -
13th Amendment approved and ratified by congress
African Americans become full citizens and get food, clothing, bildings, and school -
congress creates freedom bureau
this was the day when everyone was freed from being slaves and were called freemen -
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
ese were laws that made African Americans second-class citizens. Black Codes included laws that denied African Americans the right to vote. Some states prohibited intermarrying among blacks and whites and denied blacks the right to serve on juries. Others required segregation in public places and imposed more severe punishments for black criminals than for white ones. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
Andrew Johnson was a very different politician and person from Lincoln. A Southerner and a Democrat, Johnson was chosen by Lincoln to balance the ticket in the 1864 election. He was a less skilled communicator and politician than Lincoln. He was also a former slaveholder. Johnson’s goal was to bring the Democratic Party back into power. -
radical republicans
licans in Congress supported Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, the Radical Republicans in Congress opposed it. They felt it was too easy on the former rebels and did not do enough to help people freed from slavery. Radical Republicans were also concerned that Lincoln’s plan would leave too much political power in the hands of the former Confederate leadership.Radical Republicans proposed their own plan, outlined in the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864. This bill required the states to accept the end of -
1st, 2nd, 3rd reconstruction acts
divided the south into 5 districts each governed by material law -
johnson impeached
he was impeached because he was trying to limit the effect of the radical reconstruction -
14th amendment ratified
The purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to undo legal concessions that had been made to slavery since the writing of the Constitution -
ulysses s. grant elected
the Northern hero of the Civil War, won the election. Grant would follow a more moderate path for Reconstruction. In 1871, President Grant called for the withdrawal of Union troops from the South. The Freedmen’s Bureau also shut down that year -
sharecropping
it is when a land owner lets another land owner to use there land and share crops -
15th amendment ratified
protected voting rights by prohibiting states from denying voting rights because of race -
enforcement acts
three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws -
amenesty act of 1872
allowed many former Confederates to run for public office. Intimidation and violence kept many African Americans and Republicans away from the polls -
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
Immediately after the presidential election of 1876, it became clear that the outcome of the race hinged largely on disputed returns from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina–the only three states in the South with Reconstruction-era Republican governments still in power. As a bipartisan congressional commission debated over the outcome early in 1877, allies of the Republican Party candidate Rutherford Hayes met in secret with moderate southern Democrats in order to negotiate acceptance of Haye
