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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
The Ten Percent Plan is where if 10% of a state's voters swore loyalty to the union and finally end slavery. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The Wade-Davis Bill was a bill which required to accept the end of slavery and the freedmen have the right to vote. More than half of a state's voters needed to sign a loyalty oath before it can be admitted again. -
Lincoln re-elected
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Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was made to help African-Americans and poor white people after the Civil War. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court-House- - Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress.
Slaver or anything similar is abolished, except as punishment for crime. -
Mississippi enacts first Black Codes
Black Codes are rules that restrict black people from political and some civil rights. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans constructively reconstruct the south after the civil war. They enrage the south. -
1st, 2st, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The 1st Reconstruction Act is to divide the south into five military districts. -
Johnson impeached
Andrew Johnson was impeached because he fired a disloyal member of his cabinet. The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Ulysses S. Grant was the general of the Union Army. He then became the 18th President.uly -
14th Amendment Ratified
It granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is when a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. -
15th Amendment
It had given African-American the right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote and give equal protection of laws -
Amnesty Act of 1872
It removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the civil war. -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
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Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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Disputed Election
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Hayes declared president; Reconstruction end
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Compromise of 1877
It had gotten rid of federal troops out of state politics, and it had ended the reconstruction/
