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10 Percent Plan
Lincoln made it so if 10 percent of the southern states' voters swore an oath to oppose succession then they could be admitted back to the union -
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Reconstruction-jackmelt
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Lincoln Vetoes the Wade- Davis Bill
It stated that 50% of male southern voters had to swear that they never suported the confederacy -
Lincoln Re-elected
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Missisippi enacts Black Codes
Mississippi enforced laws that made black people less than white people -
Freedman's Bureau
It was a group made as a sare haven for freedmen and it helpefd them get full citizenship -
Confederate Surrenders
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Licoln Assasinated
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Mississippi Enacts First Black Codes
Mississippi enacted the first black codes, which were laws that virtually took away freedmens rights. -
Johnson Declares reconstruction is complete
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13th Ammendment
This ammendent abolished slavery. -
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans were people who strongly opposed slavery. THey voted for Ulysses S. Grant to be president. -
1st,2nd and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The 1st reconstruction act stated that the rebel staes will be divided into 5 military districts -
Johnson Impeached
Johnson was impeached because he violated the Tenure of Office Act. -
14th Amendment Ratified
It gives rights to any person who is born in the US -
Ulysses S Grant Elected
Ulysses S Grannt was in favor of the phrase " every man is created equal." He believed that the nation should be united. -
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 Ratified
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century. -
Enforcement Acts
This Act let the president have the power to make states enforce the 15th amendment -
Freedmans Bureau Terminated
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Amnesty Act of 1872
This denied people the right to deny service to black people -
Lame-duck Congress passes CIvil Rights Act
This made every person equal in public establishments. -
Disputed Election
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Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends
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Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.
