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ruther B. haynes elected president
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abraham lincoln announces plans for reconstruction
reourseAbraham Lincoln had thought about the process of restoring the Union from the earliest days of the war. His guiding principles were to accomplish the task as rapidly as possible and ignore calls for punishing the South. -
wade-davis bill recieves pocket veto
resoursethis proposed the reonstruction on the south on the goverments powerto guarentee a republican form of goverment. -
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lincoln re-elected president
resoursehis competion was George B mclellon, lincoln electoral votes was 212, it carried in 22 states, his popular vote was 2,218,388, and his perentage was 55.0%. George was know where close to winning this election. his numbers were very low. lincoln won by alot more votes. -
ratification of the thirteenth amendment
resourePresident Lincoln and other Republicans were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation, which in 1863 declared the freedom of slaves in 10 Confederate states then in rebellion, would be seen as a temporary war measure, since it was based solely on Lincoln's war powers. The Proclamation did not free any slaves in the border states it also didnt it abolish slavery. -
black codes created in mississppi
resursethe term "Black Codes" is used most often to refer to legislation passed by Southern states at the end of the Civil War to control the labor, migration and other activities black slaves. which was puting blacks back in slavery after slaery ended, but it being legal. -
formation of the freemans bureau
resoursefederal agency formed to aid and protect the newly, freed blacks, in the south after the civil war. A bill extending its life indefinitely and greatly increasing its powers was vetoed -
assaniation of abraham lincoln
happened in washington at a theater, that he went to with his wife. a man that was an actor, got into the theater from the back, because the guards thought that he was performing, and the went up to the seats that abrham was sitting at and shot the military man that was with him, and then shot abrham in the back of the head under the ear, that offentially went to the back of his eye. but he did all of this when the crowds laughter grew really loud, so noone would notice. the he jumped on stage. -
civil rights act (1866) enacted
this act was going threw the civil rights and make the rights more flexibkle to the new problems that were going on. -
reconstruction acts enacted
A key feature of the Acts included the creation of 5 military districts in the South, each commanded by a general, which would serve as the acting government for the region. National Archives, War Department Records. -
present andrew johnson impeached
the most dramatic events in the political life of the United States during Reconstruction and the first impeachment in history of a sitting United States president. -
ratification of the 14th amendment
Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857, that had held that people of African descent could not be citizens of the United States. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected to senate
was the 18th president of the United States. -
ratification of the 15th amendment
the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" like slavery. -
freedmens bureau abolised
started by abrham lincoln, helped out the black whenit came to there freedom rights. and keeping them safe from KKK -
Hiram revels elected to senate
was the first person to be black and be apart of the U.S senate. -
KKK act enacted
An Act to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and for other Purposes -
civil rights act
this was the reconstruction of the civil rights, so that blacks had better civil rights -
president andrew johnson announce plans for reconstruction
resoursean example of his reconstruction plan was that he changed that blacks were given the right to vote. -
last national troops leave south carolina
because they wernt needed anymore, and they thought there was no good reason for them to be there anymore. -
"jim crow" enters american cultural language
jim entered the american culteral language to fight for rights of all men. -
Ku Klux Klan created
the KKK was the first terrorist group, that got rid of any blacks that didnt follow the rules, and whites that were ok with, and helped the blacks. they did this because they didnt like blacks and thought that they had to much freedom.
