jenny's reconstruction

By jenny02
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    Reconstruction

  • Period: to

    reconstruction

  • Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan

    Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan

    President Lincoln offered presidential pardon to any rebel who promised loyalty to the union and respected its laws involving slavery.
  • Lincoln Vetoes Wade-Davis bill

    Lincoln Vetoes Wade-Davis bill

    Sponsored by radical Republicans that outlined stricter requierments for re-admission to the union during the period of reconstruction
  • Lincolns relection

    Lincolns relection

  • 13th Amendment approved and ratified by congress

    13th Amendment approved and ratified by congress

    Abolished slavery in the United States.
  • Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House-Civil War ends

    Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House-Civil War ends

  • Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau

    Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau

    Established to aid freed slaves in the south during the reconstruiction era in the United States.
  • Lincoln assasinated;Johnson becomes president

    Lincoln assasinated;Johnson becomes president

  • Johnson declares reconstruction complete

    Johnson declares reconstruction complete

  • Mississippi enacts first Black Code

    Mississippi enacts first Black Code

    Laws passed by Southern states to restrict African Americans freedom
  • Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans

    planed to reconstruct the south after the civil war.These people belived that African Americans deserved the same rights as white people.
  • 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts

    1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts

    The first Reconstruction act divided the South (except Tenneesee) into five military districts
  • Johnson impeached

    Johnson impeached

    Andrew Johnson was impeached due to a violation of the Tenure of Office Act
  • Ulysses S.Grant is elected

    Ulysses S.Grant is elected

    symbol of union victory during the civil war and helped out Lincoln win the civil war.
  • 14th Amendment ratified

    14th Amendment ratified

    The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all born or from the United States.
  • Sharecropping

    Sharecropping

    Sharecropping is a system of agriculture which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops they made
  • 15th Amendment ratified

    15th Amendment ratified

    Granted African Americans the right to vote.
  • Enforcement Acts

    Enforcement Acts

    Criminal codes which protected african americans right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and recieve equal protection
  • Freedmen's Bereau terminated

    Freedmen's Bereau terminated

  • Amnesty Act of 1872

    Amnesty Act of 1872

    United States Federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the scessionists
  • Lame-duck Congress passes Civil rights act

    Lame-duck Congress passes Civil rights act

  • Disputed Election

    Disputed Election

  • Hayes Declared president; Reconstruction ends

    Hayes Declared president; Reconstruction ends

  • Compromise of 1877

    Compromise of 1877

    pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South also ended the Reconstruction Era.