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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A State could be readmitted to the union if 10% of voters swore a loyalty oath to the union and agreed to the end of slavery. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
It required states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African American men the right to vote. It made more than 50% of a state’s voters to sign a loyalty oath before that state could be readmitted. -
Lincoln re-elected
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
It guaranteed freedom for blacks. -
Congress creates Freedmen’s Bureau
It was a welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become citizens. -
Congress creates Freedmen’s Bureau
It was a welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become 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
They were laws the made African Americans “second class citizens.” They denied African Americans the right to vote, to be on a jury and in some states banned intermarrying among blacks and whites. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical Republicans
They are people that want equal rights for everyone. They dangered reconstruction because they vocally opposed Andrew Johnson and gradually the Congress took charge of reconstruction. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
It divided the south into 5 military districts, each governed by a general of the union army. The military governor was in charge of everyone in that district. -
Johnson impeached
He was racists towards African Americans and tried to stop Military Reconstruction. -
14th Amendment ratified
It guarantees everyone the right to vote. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Ulysses Grant took a moderate path as president for reconstruction. He withdrew union troops from the south. -
Sharecropping
A system used by freed African Americans that didn’t have enough money to own their own farms. It works like this: A landowner rents a piece of land to a farmer in exchange for a share of the crop that the farmer grows. -
15th Amendment ratified
This amendment protected voting rights by prohibiting states from denying voting rights because of race. -
Enforcement Acts
Acts that protected African Americans right to vote. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
This act allowed former Confederates to run for public office -
Freedmen’s Bureau terminated
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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
The Democrats agreed to accept the ballots that made Hayes the winner in exchange for the Republicans agreeing to withdraw the federal troops from the South.
