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President Lincoln announced his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction also known as the 10 Percent Plan
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Radicals responded to the Ten-Percent Plan by passing the Wade-Davis Plan
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
Gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discriminatory laws -
Lincoln's Assassination
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Johnson announced his own plan, Presidential Recontruction
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Moderate republicans joined with Radicals to override the presidents vetos of Civil Rights and Freedman's Bureau acts
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Reconstruction Act of 1867 passed
did not recognize state governments formed under the Lincoln and Johnson plans- except for that Tennessee, which had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment and had been readmitted to the union -
Fourteenth Amendment Ratified
all persons born or naturalized in the united states citizens of the country