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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Lincoln issued this because he wanted a moderate policy that would recoile the South with the Uion in stead of punishing it for treason. -
Wade-Davis Bill
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Freedmen's Bureau
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Lincoln Assasination
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President Johnson Attack
He had hoped the Northerns would turn against the Radical Republicans and elect a new majority in Congress that would support his plan for Reconstruction. -
Civil Rights Act
A federal law in the United States that was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of African-Americans, in the wake of the American Civil War. -
Ku Klux Klan
Unable to strike directly to the Republicans, Southerns started secret societies, the largest one was the Ku Klux Klan.Would go around terriorizing supporters of the Republicans. -
The Comman of the Army Act
Prevented the president from issuing orders to the military except through the general of the army, who at the time was Ulysses S. Grant.Also the commanding general could not be removed without the Senate's consent. -
Tenure of Office Act
Required the president to obtain approval from the Senate to remove any officeholder that the Senate had confirmed. -
Military Reconstruction Act
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Challenge
Johnston decides to fire Stanton. Stanton did not leave. -
Impeachment
The House of Representatives voted to impeach Johnson, they would charge him for high crimes and misdeameanors in office. This was accepted. -
Senate Aquits
On this day in 1868, the Senate by the narrowest of margins failed to convict President Andrew Johnson of the impeachment charges levied against him by the House. -
Election 1868
African Americans voted in large number, as the result Grant won six Soutern states and most the Northern states. The Republicans remained large in both house of Congress. -
Ratfy of 15th Amendment
Congress passed this for African American suffrage. It declared the right for them to vote. -
Three Enforcements Acts
First act made it a federal crime to interfere with citizen's right to vote. Second act put federal elections under supervision of marshals. Third act,known as the Klu Klux Klan Act, outlawed the activities of the Klan. -
Grant Reelection
Easily elected to a second term in office with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate, despite a split within the Republican Party that resulted in a defection of many Liberal Republicans to opponent Horace Greeley. -
Slaughter House Cases
In these cases, the conservative Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment protected U.S. citizens from rights infringements only on a federal level, not on a state level. -
Jay Cooke and Company bankruption
A wave of fear pored through the nations finanical community. -
Demecracts and House of Reps.
Democrats become majority party in House of Representatives. -
Whiskey Ring
Involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors. -
Election 1877
This was the first presidential election in 24 years in which the Democratic candidate won a majority of the popular vote. This was also the first, and so far only, election in the history of the United States in which a candidate received an absolute majority of the popular vote and was not elected President by the Electoral College, and one of only four elections in which the person receiving a plurality of the popular vote lost the electoral vote. -
Compromise of 1877
Refers to a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election, regarded as the second "corrupt bargain", and ended Congressional Reconstruction. -
End of Reconstruction
Northerners were tired of Reconstruction; weary of battling southern elites, scandal, and radicalism; and had largely lost interest in supporting black civil rights. Theoretically, North and South reached a compromise: black civil liberties and racial equality would be set aside in order to put the Union back together. -
New indrustries
Northern captials help build railroads, and almost 40,000 miles of railroad tracks crissed -crossed the south.More than 1860's.
