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lincoln's plan
lincoln set fourth his plan in the proclimation of Amnesty, or pardon , to all southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the united states and accepted the union's proclimations concerning slavery. -
The Wade-Davis Bill
This bill required the majority of the adult white men in a former confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the union. The state could then hold a constitutional convention to create a new state government. -
The Freedmen's Bureau
the refugee crisis prompted congress to establish the bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned land. -
the reconstruction battle begins
the president and congress grappled with reconstruction, or rebuilding after the war.They had to decide under what terms and conditions the former confederate states would rejoin the union. -
The civil rights act
The act granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States except native americans. -
Military Reconstruction
congressional republicans passed the military reconstruction act, which essentially wiped out johnson's programs. The act divided the former confederacy, except Tennessee. -
Impeachment
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Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan
Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse Congress creates Freedmen’s Bureau Lincoln is assassinated; Johnson becomes president -
The Fifteenth Amendment
this amendment declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied... on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitued." -
Republican rule in the south
all of the former confederate states had rejoined the union under the congressional reconstruction plan. throughout the south, the republican party took power and introduced several major reforms. -
The Enforcement acts
after the ku klux klan outraged president grant and congressional republicans they passed THREE ENFORCEMENT ACTS to combat the violence in the south -
the republicans split
after failing to stop grant from his second nomination, the liberal republicans left the republican party and nominated their own canidate, who was horace greeley. -
the panic of 1873
after a series of bad railroad investments forced the jay cooke and company to declare bankrupcy, a wave of fear quickly spread through the nation's financial community. -
scandals mar grant's second term
the whiskey ring scandal broke. a group of government officials and distillers in st. louis cheated the government out of millions of dollars by filling fake tax reports. -
the compromise of 1877
with grants reputation damaged with scandals, the republicans decided not to nominate him for a third term. instead they nominated rutherford b. hayes, a former ohio governor. -
new industries
northern capital helped to build railroad. this was almost 40,000 miles of railroad tracks crisscrossing the south nearly 4 times.
