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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A state could be readmitted if 10% of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the union and agreed to end slavery. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis bill
Lincoln vetoed the Wade-Davis bill, saying it was too harsh. -
Lincoln re-elected
The radical republicans tried to replace lincoln in the 1864 election, but they did not succeed. he was re-elected november 8th, 1864. -
Congress creates Freedmens Bureau
U.S. federal government agency established in order to aid freedman -
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House - Civil War ends
Rober E Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant -
Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
John Wilkes Booth fatally shot Lincolnm at Fords Theatre. Andrew Johnson became president on April 15th. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
President Johnson delcares reconstruction complete. The Radical Republicans were outraged -
13th amendment approved and ratified by congress
abolished slavery in the United States -
Mississippi enacts first Black Code
Black codes were laws that made blacks second class citizens. They were designed to restrict black freed activities. -
Radical Republicans
The radical republicans belkieved that blacks were entitled to the same rights as whites. The danger they play in reconstruction is they try to overturn Johnsons beliefs. -
1sr, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction acts
1st act - also known as military act. It split the states into five military districts
2nd act - military commanders held responsibility to register voters and hold elections in their territories
3rd act - gave supreme power to five union generals. They could remove any official. -
Johnson impeached
The impeachment of Johnson was a result of political conflict. The U.S. house of representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against Johnson. -
14th amendment ratified
The 14th amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States, including slaves recently freed. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
The first presedential election held after Civil War. Election took place November 3rd, 1868. He aligned himself with the Radical Republicans. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which 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 ratified
the right to vote shall not be denied by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Enforcement acts
three bills passed by the Congress. They were criminal codes that protected african americans rights to vote , to hold office, to serve on juries -
Freedmen's bureau terminated
The bureau had lost most of its funding and had to cut most of its staff. By 1872 congress abandoned the program, due to the rise of ku klux klan violence in the south. -
Amnesty act of 1872
Removed voting restrictions and office holding disqualification against most of the sessionists. -
Lame-duck Congress passes civil rights act
Civil rights bill that sought to gaurentee freedom of access, regardless of race to the full and equal enjoyment of public facilities -
Disputed election
Democrat Samuel J had oppolled Ohios Rutherford B Hayes. -
Hayes declared president, reconstruction ends
Hayes was president, He ended reconstruction and pulled federal troops out of the two last occupied states. South Carolina and Louisiana. -
Compromise olf 1877
Unwritten deal that settled the election of 1876, pulled all federal troops out of state politics in the South and ended the Reconstruction Era
