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Lincoln's Plan / Reconstruction Era begins
Lincoln offered a pardon for all those accused of treason. -
Wade-Davis Bill
This bill required the majority of the adult white males in a former Confederate state to take an oath of allegiance -
Black Codes
Th Black Codes severely limited African Americans' rights -
Andrew Johnson becomes President
Andrew Johnson is sworn into ofiice -
Johnson's Plan
Johnson's Plan disenfranchised all former military and civil officers of the Confederacy and all those who owned property worth $20,000 or more and made their estates liable to confiscation. -
Ku Klux Klan
The groups goal was to drive out carpetbaggers and intimidate African American voters so as to regain control of ther South for the Democratic Party -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The act granted citizenship to all perosns born in the United States except Native Americans -
The Hampton Institute
Was started to teach African Americans a trade or agricultural techniques -
15th Ammendment
prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "ace, color, or previous condition of servitude -
Ku Klux Klan Act
This act outlawed the activities of the KKK -
Panic of 1873
Dozens of smaller banks closed, and the stock market plummeted. Thousands of businesses shut down, and unemployment soared. -
Whiskey Ring Scandal
A group of government officials and distillers in St. Louis, Missouri, cheated the government out of millions of dollars be filling false tax reports. -
Reconstruction Era ends
President Rutherford B. Hayes pulled troops out of the South. Without soldiers to support them, the last Republican governments in South Carolina and Louisiana collapsed. The Democrats had "redeemed" the South. ALong with the Compromise of 1877, this ended the Reconstruction era. -
Bruce elected to the Senate
First African American to be elected into the Senate -
Spelman College
First college for African American women - Now Tuskegee University
