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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
It is also known as the Proclamation of Amnesty. It talks about how a state can be readmitted if at least 10 percent of its voters swore an oath to the Union. They also had to agree to the end of slavery. Lincoln hoped this plan would weaken the Confederacy. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The bill stated that states were required to accept that slavery has ended and to grant all African American men the right to vote. It also stated that more than half of a state's voters would have to sign the loyalty oath if a state wants to be readmitted. It was very harsh since a person had to say that they never suported a rebellion. -
Lincoln re-elected
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States. It meant that African Americans were no longer owned as property. They could not be sold or separated from their families. -
Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
It was established as a welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens. Some services that were included were handing out food, clothing, building schools and hospitals, and helping find missing family members. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House -- Civil War Ends
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Lincoln Assassinated; Johnson becomes President
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Mississippi enacts the First Black Code
Black codes were laws that made African Americans second class citizens. They denied African Americans the right to vote and in some states it prevented them from owning land. They would have to work as free laborers. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans were a section of the American politicians within the Republican Party. They believed in the equality of blacks and whites. They believed blacks should be entitled the same rights as whites. Johnson vetoed their Civil Rights Bill because it gave the blacks the same rights of property and people. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The First Reconstruction Act divided the South into 5 districts governed by the U.S military until a form of government was established. -
Johnson Impeached
Johnson was accused of violating the Tenure of Office Act. This act stated that a president could not dismiss appointed officials without Congress' s consent. -
14th Amendment Ratified
The 14th Amendment addressed citizenship rights and equal protection of laws. It was a response to issues relating to former slaves. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Grant was working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove vestiges of slavery. He was a man of scrupulous honesty. He followed a more moderate path of Reconstruction -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is 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. -
15th Amendment raitified
The 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. It prohibits federal and state government from denying a citizen their right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
These acts were three bills passed by Congress between 1870-1871. They were criminal codes which protected African Americans' rights to vote, hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal rights. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
It was a federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the Civil War except for some 500 Confederate military leaders, -
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
This compromise was an informal unwritten deal that settled the heated dispute of the 1876 election and pulled the troops out of state politics in the South. It eventually ended the era of Reconstruction.
