-
Period: to
Reconstruction
-
Lincoln Announces Ten Percent Plan
Lincoln offered to readmit a state if 10% of its voters agreed to end slavery -
Lincoln Re-elected
-
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
This bill required the states to accept the end of slavery and to give all African American men the right to vote. It made required that more than half of a state’s voters had to sign a loyalty oath before that state could be readmitted. -
Congress creates Freedmen’s Bureau
The Bureau of Refugees was established in March 1865 as a welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens. The services the bureau provided included providing food and clothing, and building schools and hospitals. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House – Civil War ends
Robert E. Lee surrenders, and the cival war ends. -
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated; Johnson becomes president
President Lincoln is assasinated during a play at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth -
Mississippi enacts first Black Code
Black Codes were laws that took away rights from African Americans, making them second-class citizen. Black Codes included laws that denied African Americans the right to vote. Some required segregation in public places and imposed unfair punishments for black criminals. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
-
13th Amendment ratified
This amendment abolished slavery. It was ratified by the required number of states on December 6, 1865 -
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war demanded harsh punishing for ex-confederates, and supported civil rights, equality, and voting rights for the "freedmen" -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
It split the southern states into five military districts, each under the control of a Northern General who had the responsibility of protecting the people and land. The First Reconstruction Act also demanded the need for new delegates and constitutions for states, the ratification of the Fourteenth amendment, and equal rights for all people, regardless of race. -
Johnson Impeached
On February 21, 1868, Johnson decided to get rid of his VP and appointed General Lorenzo Thomas, but Stanton refused, and barricaded himself in his office, and the House of Representatives, which had previously talked about impeaching Johnson, decided to take action. -
14th Amendment ratified
The amendment grants citizenship to any person who was "born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves and freedmen -
Ulyssess S. Grant Elected
Grant was a Union general, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln,but when Grant took office, he was inexperienced politically, and also only 46 years old, the youngest president in history, at the time. Although he was honest, Grant became known for appointing not so good people. He did have some success, such as the ratification of the 15th Amendment and the establishment of the National Parks Service, but throughout both of his terms, the administration was scandalous. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a farming system in which a landowner allows a tenant to use their land for farming in return for a portion of the crops produced on their land. -
15th Amendment Ratified
The 15th Amendment gave African-American men the right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement acts were three bills passed by the Congress between 1870 and 1871 which protected rights of African-Americans' such as the right to vote, the right to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection from laws. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
United States federal law that removed voting restrictions against most confederates, and allowed them to run for office. -
Freedman's Bureau Terminated
-
Lame-Duck Congress Passes Civil Rights Act
In there last effort to protect what remained of Reconstruction, The Republican controlled congress passed a bill that guaranteed freedom of access to public facilities, such as bathrooms and water fountains, regardless of race. People were now also given the right to sue someones else for injury. -
Disputed election
The candidates running for President were Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, and Samuel J. Tilden, a Democrat. The first returns indicated a win for Tilden, who had won the popular vote by about 250,000 votes, But Tilden's 184 electoral votes were still one short of a majority, while Hayes' 165 electoral votes left him a distant 20 electoral votes away, with only 4 states remaining. -
Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends
-
Compromise of 1877
Immediately after the presidential election of 1876, it became clear that the outcome of the race was greatly affected by the disputed results from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina, which were the only three states in the South with Reconstruction-era Republican governments still in power. Secretly, the Republican Party met with moderate southern Democrats in order to negotiate the acceptance of Hayes.
