Sam's reconstruction timeline

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    reconstruction

  • Lincolns Ten Percent Plan

    Lincolns Ten Percent Plan
    A state could be readmitted if 10% of it's voters swore a loyalty oath to the unionand agreed to end slavery.
  • Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill

    Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
    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

    Lincoln re-elected
  • 13th Amendment approved and ratifed by Congress

    13th Amendment approved and ratifed by Congress
    There will be no longer slavery and could no longer be owned as property.
  • Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau

    Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
    To help former slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
  • Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House

    Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House
  • Mississippi enacts first Black Code

    Mississippi enacts first Black Code
    Laws that made African-Americans second-class citizens.
  • Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president

    Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
  • Johnson declares reconstruction complete

    Johnson declares reconstruction complete
  • Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans
    They were memebers in the republican party who demanded the end of slavery and equal rights.
  • 1st, 2nd, 3rd reconstructed acts

    1st, 2nd, 3rd reconstructed acts
    It splits the south into 5 military districts under control from a northern general.
  • Johnson impeached

    Johnson impeached
    He was trying to fire Edwin Stanton who was a radical republican. Johnson was trying to replace him with someone who would not enforce the law.
  • 14th Amendment ratified

    14th Amendment ratified
    It granted citizenship to all former slaves.
  • Ulyesses S, Grant elected

    Ulyesses S, Grant elected
    He was moderate.
  • ShareCropping

    ShareCropping
    A landowner rents a piece of land to a farmer in exchange for a share of the crop the farmer grows. It is an economic system.
  • 15th Amendment ratified

    15th Amendment ratified
    It protected voting rights by prohibiting states from denying voting rights because of race.
  • Enforcement Acts.

    Enforcement Acts.
    They were three bills passed. They protected African-American;s right to vote, hold office, to serve on juries, and recieve equal protection.
  • Amnesty Act of 1872

    Amnesty Act of 1872
    Allowed former confedrates to run for public office.
  • Freedman's Bureau terminated

    Freedman's Bureau terminated
  • Lame-duck congress passess Civil Rights Act

    Lame-duck congress passess Civil Rights Act
  • Disputed election

    Disputed election
  • Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends

    Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends
  • Compromise of 1877

    Compromise of 1877
    The democrats agreed to accept the ballots that made Hayes the winner in exchange for the Republicans agreeing to withdraw federal troops form the South.