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reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
The plan meant that a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the union and agreed to the end of slavery. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade- Davis Bill
The Wade Davis Bill is a bill that required the 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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Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was established to help and protect emancipated slaves (freedmen) during their transition from a life of slavery to a life of freedom. -
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House -civil war ends
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Lincoln assasssinated; Johnson becomes president
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Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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13th amendment approved and ratified by congess
The 13th amendment ended slavery in the North forever. -
Mississipi enacts first Black code
Black codes were laws passed by southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the civil war. These laws were created to restrict african americans freedom. These laws hurt blacks. -
Radical republicans
he Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. -
1sr, 2nd, and 3rd reconstruction acts
Congress enacted the Reconstruction Act, which, supplemented later by three related acts, divided the South (except Tennessee) into five military districts in which the authority of the army commander was supreme. -
Johnson impeached
He was impeached in 1868 for dismissing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton without the approval of the Senate as required in the Tenure of Office Act and for attacking congressional policies on the Reconstruction in the South. -
14th Amendment ratified
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Ulysses Grant (1822-1885) commanded the victorious Union army during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and served as the 18th U.S. president from 1869 to 1877. -
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 Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of the Confederacy. -
Freedmens 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 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.
