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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A state could be readmitted if 10 percent of its voters swore loyalty oath to the Union and agreeed to the end of slavery. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The bill requires states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African- American men the right to vote. -
Lincoln re-elected
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!3th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
The 13th amendment meant they were no longer slaves and could no longer be owned as property. -
Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was established as a welfare agency to help freed men become full citizens. -
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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Missisippi enacts first Black Code
The Black Codes were laws that made African Americans second-class citizens and denied the right to vote. It made their lives as cloe to slabery as possible -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical Rebublicans
Radical republicans believed in equality and freedom and did anything they could to protect the freed peoples rights. They play the role of the threat of starting a war. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The 1st reconstruction act divided the South into five military districts, each governed by a general of the Union Army and controlled by federal troops. -
Johnson impeached
He was impeached because he tried to stop Military Reconstruction by firing Edwin M. Stanton. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Grant would follow a more moderate path for reconstrction, He was a good president. -
14th Amendment ratified
The 14th admendment protected voting rights by prohibiting states from denying voting rights because of race. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use land in return for a share of the crops. -
15th amendment ratified
The 15th amendment stated "The right of citizens of the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It protected voting rights by prohibiting states from denying voting rights because of race. -
Enforcement acts
The enforcement acts were three bills passed by the congress. They were codes which protected African- Americans rights. -
Amnesty Acts of 1872
The Amnesty Act allowed many former confederates to run for public office. -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
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Lame-duck Congress passed civil rigghts 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 Rebublicans agreeing to withdrawl the federal troops from the south.
