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Lincoln Announces Ten Percent Plan
The 10% Plan specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10% of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. -
Lincoln Re-elected & Vetoes the Wade-Davis Bill
Lincoln was re-elected by a wide margin. But, the Radical Republicans continued to resist Lincoln's treatment of the former Confederate states as being too lenient. The Wade-Davis Bill required states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all Black men the right to vote. -
Congress creates the Freedmen's Bureau
It was a federal agency, formed to aid and protect the newly freed blacks in the South after the Civil War. Established by an act in March 3rd, 1865, under the name "bureau of refugees , freedmen, and abandoned lands" -
Lee Surenders at Appomattox Court House
This was one of the last battles of the American Civil War it was the final engagement of Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Viriginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under LT. Gen. Ulysseys S. Grant. -
President Lincoln is Assassinated
Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre during the performance of "Our American Cousin" in Washington DC. John Wilkes Booth, (the assassinator) was a well known actor at the time. Booth knew that if he assassinated Lincoln and boh of his possible succesors, that he would throw the US government into disarray -
Johnson Declares Reconstruction Complete
President Johnson declares the reconstruction process complete. Outraged, Radical Republicans in Congress refuse to recognize new governments in southern states. -
13th Amendment is Approved & Ratified by Congress
The 13th Amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865, it formally abolished slavery and granted Blacks the freedom they well desserved. -
Mississippi Enacts First Black Code
By late 1865, when the 13th Amendment officially outlawed the institution of slavery, the questions of freed blacks' status in the postwar South was still very much unresolved. The Black Codes were laws past that said that if a black person wasn't working they would be auctioned -
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans called for equal rights for black citizens, they are dangerous because they can pass any bill through Congress. -
1st 2nd & 3rd Reconstruction Acts
Laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. -
Johnson Impeached
President Andrew Johnson was impeached because of a political conflict and the rupture of the ideologies and the aftermath of the American Civil War. -
Ulysses S. Grant Elected
The 18th President of the United States, his primary focus as president, was reconstruction. He worked to reconcile the North and the South while also trying to protect the the civil rights of the newly freed blacks. -
14th Amendment Ratified
The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. -
15th Amendment Ratified
Granted African American men the right to vote. -
Sharecropping
A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. -
Enforcement Acts
There were 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. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
A United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of the Confederacy. -
Freedmen's Bureau Terminated
It was terminated because Congress was preoccupied with other issues, and chose to terminate the Freedmen's Bureau. -
Lame-Duck Congress Passes Civil Rights Act
An act the was won by 162 to 99 votes. A United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era to guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury service. -
Disputed Election
One of the most disputed presidential elections in American history. Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes uncounted. -
Hayes Elected, Reconstruction
The two major candidates running for President were Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, and Samuel J. Tilden, a Democrat. The first returns indicated a victory for Tilden, who had won the popular vote with 4,284,020 votes to Hayes' 4,036,572. -
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.
