Reconstruction

Lincoln announces Ten percent Plan

Dec 8, 1863

A state could be readmitted if 10 percent of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the union and agreed to the end of slaveryv

Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill

Jul 2, 1864

This bill required the states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African American men the right to vote

Lincoln Re-elected

Nov 8, 1864

Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau

Mar 3, 1865

A Welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens

Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House-Civil War ends

Apr 9, 1865

Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president

Apr 15, 1865

Mississippi enacts first Black Code

Nov 22, 1865

Laws that made African Americans second-class citizens. Black Codes included laws that denied African Americans the right to vote.

Johnson declares reconstruction complete

Dec 1, 1865

13th Amendment approved and ratified by congress

Dec 8, 1865

The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime

Radical Republicans

Mar 10, 1866

A radical is someone who favors extreme change. The dangerous part they play in the reconstruction is that they also favored harsh treatment for traitorous Confederate soldiers and office-holders

1st , 2nd, 3rd Reconstruction act

Mar 2, 1867

The first Reconstruction act demanded the need for new state delegates and constitutions , the ratification of the fourteenth amendment and the provisions for equal rights for each citizen.

Johnson Impeached

Feb 24, 1868

ndrew Johnson was impeached because he decided to rid himself of stanton and put General Lorenzo Thomas as secretary of war.And also the congress opposed Johnsons Reconstruction program

14th Amendment Ratified

Jul 9, 1868

The purpose of the 14th Amendment was to undo legal concessions that had been made to slavery since the writing of the constitution

Ulysses S. Grant elected

Nov 3, 1868

Ulysses S. Grant was a good president he is known for leading the United States victory over the confederate states of America during the civil war and he also served a second term.

Sharecropping

Oct 5, 1869

Sharecropping is when a landowner rents a peice of land to a farmer in exchange for a share of the crop the farmer grows. The landowner also provides seed and sometimes tools on credit. The sharecropper repays the debt after harvesting and selling his or her crop

15th Amendment ratified

Mar 30, 1870

The 15th amendment axtended voting rights to African American men. Also with the 15th amendment it also states that any citizen of the united states can not be denied by the united states or by any state on account of race , color or previous condition of servitude

Enforcement Acts

May 31, 1871

The Enforcement Acts were a series of three sets of laws that prohibited the use of violence or intimidation to prevent the freedmen from voting or denying them their civil rights

Amnesty act of 1872

May 22, 1872

This Act allowed many former confederates to run for public office. Intimidation kept many African Americans and Republicans away from the polls

Freedmens Bureau terminated

Jun 10, 1872

Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act

Feb 27, 1875

Disputed election

Nov 7, 1876

Haye's deeclared president; Reconstruction ends

Mar 2, 1877

Compromise of 1877

Mar 4, 1877

The Democrats agreed to accept the ballots that made Haye's the winner in exchange for the Republicans agreeing to withdraw the federal troops and this agreement became the Compromise of 1877