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Lincoln annouces Ten Percent Plan
States could be allowed to rejoin the union if 10 percent of voters agreed to no more slavery and oath of loyalty to the Union. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade Davis Bill
Forces all states to abolish slavery and allows African Americans to vote -
Lincoln is re-elected
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Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
They are a group of men that help former slaves and poor people at the end of the civil war. -
13th amendment aprroved and ratified
!3th amendment means that slavery was abolished -
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War ends
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Lincoln is assasinated; Johnson becomes president
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Mississippi enacts the first black codes
Black Codes were laws that intended to restrict African Americans freedom and made them work for very low wages. -
Johnson declares reconstuction compleated
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Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans belived that Blacks were entiltled to all the same rights as whites. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
Blacks man can be in the miltary. -
Johnson impeached
He was impeached in 1868 for dismissing Secretary Stanton without the approval of the Senate -
14th amendment ratified
All people including freed slaves rights are protected. -
Ulysses Grant elected
Moderate plan for the reconstruction
Called to withdraw troops from the south
Shut down Freedmans Buerau -
sharecropping
one person farms for the land owner and gets a portion of the crops -
15 amendment ratified
african americain suffrage -
Enforcement Acts
African-Americans' right to vote, be in office, serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws. -
Freedmens Buerau terminated
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Amnesty Act of 1872
removed voting and office holding restrictions on confederates -
lame duck congress passes civil rights act
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Disputed election
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Hayes declaired president
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comopromise of 1877
it pulled troops out of the south, it ended the reconstruction, and hayes became president
