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reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten percent Plan
means that the state would be admitted if the ten percent of the voters promised a pledge of allegiance to the union and to agree to end slavery. -
Lincoln veotes Wade-Davis Bill
A bill that required 50% of states voters. -
Lincoln re-elected
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Congress creates freedmens Bureau
helped black slaves and poor whites in the south -
Lee surrenders at appomattox court house-civil war ends
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Lincoln assaisinated; Johnson becomes president
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Mississippi enacts first black code
The black codes were laws passed by southern states, it also made the african americans work on poor labor with little money given. -
Johnson decalres reconstruction complete
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13th Amendement approved and ratified by congress
African American were no longer as slaves and could no longer be owned as property -
Radical Republicans
The Radical Republicans were the wing of the Republican party -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd reconstruction acts
The first act divided the south into five different military districts with one person in charge -
Johnson impeached
He was impeached because of political conflict -
14th amendment ratified
the 14th amendment was to people who were born in the US it gave them citizenship -
Sharecropping
Share cropping is a system of algriculture. It also involves a landowner & a tenant -
15th amendment ratified
no person can be denied in the United States by the color race or anything dealing with their physical appearance. also lets you vote -
Enforcement Acts
Three bills passed by congress witch held the African Americans right to vote & to be apart of public political decisions. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
A law that removes voting limits -
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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compromise of 1877
an unwritten deal, and ended reconstruction era. -
Hayes decalred president; Reconstruction ends
