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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A state could be reamitted if 10% of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the union and agreed to the end of slavery. -
Lincoln re-elected
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Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
This bill required the states to the end of slavery and to grant all African Amercian men the right to vote. It called for more than one half of the state's voters to sign the loyalty oath before that state could be readmitted. This oath was stricter than Lincoln's loyalty oath. So he took it away or got rid of it. -
Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, or Freedman’s Bureau, was established in March 1865 as a welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens. Some of the services it provided included handing out food and clothing, building schools and hospitals, and helping find missing family members. -
Lee surrenders at Appomattox court house-Civil War ends
the civil war ends. -
Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes presidemt
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Mississippi enacts first black code
These were laws that made African Americans second-class citizens. Black Codes included laws that denied African Americans the right to vote. Some states prohibited intermarrying among blacks and whites and denied blacks the right to serve on juries. Others required segregation in public places and imposed more severe punishments for black criminals than for white ones. -
13th Amendment approved and ratified by congress
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December 6, 1865. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical Republicans
Radicals strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for punishing the former rebels, and emphasizing equality, civil rights, and voting rights for the "freedmen". -
1st, 2nd, 3rd reconstruction acts
Radicals strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for punishing the former rebels, and emphasizing equality, civil rights, and voting rights for the "freedmen". -
Johnson Impeached
Johnson was impeached because he removed Secratary of War Edwin M. Stanton from office. He replaced him with a far less experienced man, General Lorenzo Thomas. This went against the Tenure of Office Act, so he was impeached. -
14th Amendment Ratified
This amendment gave citizenship abilities to everyone born in the United States, even the freedmen. -
Ulysses S. Grant Elected
Grant was the youngest President to come into office at the time. He was only 46 years of age, with little to no political background. He had the reputation of bringing in "corrupt" government officials, which highlighted his presidency. He also had positives, like establishing the National Park Service. He was able to ratify the 15th amendment too. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping was an agricultural system in which a landowner allowed a tenant to use some property in exchange for working the fields, and some harvested goods. -
15th Amendment ratified
The 15th amendment allowed all freedmen, or black men, to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
These were three laws passed between 1870 and 1871 to portect the rights of black people. These include the right to vote, the right to hold office, and more. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
This act repealed the voting and office holding restrictions placed upon secessionists after the Civil War. -
Freedmen’s Bureau terminated
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Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
The lame-duck Republican-controlled Congress, in a last-ditch effort to protect what remained of Reconstruction, managed to pass a civil-rights bill that sought to guarantee freedom of access, regardless of race, to the "full and equal enjoyment" of many public facilities. Citizens were given the right to sue for personal damages. -
Disputed election
Candidates running for President were Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, and Samuel J. Tilden, a Democrat. The first returns indicated a victory for Tilden, who had won the popular vote with 4,284,020 votes to Hayes' 4,036,572. But Tilden's 184 electoral votes -- the votes that would decide the Presidency -- were still one short of a majority, while Hayes' 165 electoral votes left him 20 ballots away. The votes of three Southern states and one western state still had not been counted. -
Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends
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Compromise of 1877
This compromise settled the disputed election of 1876, and brought back the northern military control from the south. Essentially, the Reconstruction Era had come to a close.
