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Reconstruction
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Lincoln anounces Ten Percent Plan
A Confederate state could be readmitted to the Union only if 10% of its voters swear loyalty ( Oath of Allegiance) to the Union and agree to the end of slavery. -
Lincoln re-elected
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Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The Wade- Davis Bill made it so that if a state wanted to rejoin the Union, half of the state's voters had to sign a loyalty oath. It also required the states to accept slavery's end and to grant all African- American men the right to vote. -
13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
African American men were no longer allowed to be kept as property and couldn't be sold. -
Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was an agency to help recently freed slabes 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
A set of laws to limit black rights even further. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical Republicans
They insisted the federal government protect the rights of newly freedmen. They also wanted harsh treatment for Confederate soldiers. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
Known as thr Military Reconstruction Act ( 1st) It seperated the south into 5 sections, each gorverned by a Union general and controlled by federal troops. -
Johnson impeached
He got in too much power. Congress falsley accused him of a crime. -
14th Amendment ratified
The 14th Amendment erased the 3/5th ccompromise from the Constitution so black men were counted as real men. It also made it so if a person was in the government but then succeeded they weren't allowed to run again. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Grant withdrew Union troops from the south. The Freedmen's Bureau also shut down that year. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is when a landowner rents a piece of land to a farmer in exchange for some of the crops the farmer grows. -
15th Amendment ratified
The 15th Amendment states that citizens should be able to vote regardless of color, race, or previous working conditions. -
Enforcement Acts
These were the 3 bills that protects African American rights such as to vote, to hold office, serve on juries, and get equal protection from the law. -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
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Amnesty Act of 1872
This allowed former Confederates to run for public office. -
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
Democrats accepted Hayes as president and Republicans will withdraw federal troops from the South.
