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Lincolns Ten-Percent Plan
Lincolns plan was to make the Souths return to the union as quick and easy as possible. The Ten-Percent Plan is where the government would pardon all Confederates-expect high-ranking officials who would swear allegiance to the union. -
The Radical Reaction
The Radicals responding to Lincolns Ten-Percent plan by passing the Wade-Davis Bill. This bill proposed that Congress would be responsible for Reconstruction. -
Lincolns Assassination
Lincoln was assassinated in Fords Theater. -
Johnsons Plan
After Lincoln was assassinated, he left his successor, the Democrat Andrew Johnson, to deal with the Reconstruction controvert. Andrew Johnson Plan was to deal harshly with Confederate leaders. Therefore, most white Southerners considered Johnson a traitor to his region. -
Johnson Continues Lincolns Policies
Johnson had decided that each remaining state (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas) could be readmitted to the Union if they´d meet several conditions. Each state would have to withdraw its secession swear allegiance to the Union, annual Confederate war debts, and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment . -
Presidential Reconstruction Comes To A Standstill
President Johnson had claimed that Reconstruction had been completed. This was announced with the 39th Congress in December. -
Freedmens Bureau
This bureau established assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing and food. The Freedmen Bureau also set up more than 40 hospitals, 4,000 schools, and 61 industrial institutes. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Congress passed this act which gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discriminatory laws. President Johnson however vetoed this law and the Freedmen Bureau Act. -
Moderates and Radicals Join Forces
They joined forces to override the presidents veto on the Civil Acts Right of 1866 and the Freedman Bureau Act. In addition, Congress then drafted the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Reconstruction Act of 1867
The radicals and moderates joined to pass this act as well. This act abolished governments formed in the former Confederate states; divided those states into five military districts; and set up requirements for readmission to the Union. -
Ulysses S. Grant Elected
Ulysses S. Grant was a Civil War hero who was running for presidential candidate for the Democratic party and was against Andrew Johnson. Grant won the electoral vote by a landslide but lost the popular vote. After he became president, Congress introduced the Fifteenth Amendment which said that no one can be kept from voting because of their ¨race, color, or previous conditions of servitude¨. -
Johnson's Impeachment
The radical leaders felt President Johnson was't carrying out his constitutional obligation to enforce the Reconstruction Act. The vote was 35 to 19, they were 1 vote short of getting him impeached.
