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1863
In 1863, Lincoln released his "10 percent" Reconstruction plan which dictated that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of its voters in the presidential election of 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the United States and pledged to abide by emancipation Then, a formal state government would be constructed within the state, and the state would be re-admitted into the Union. -
1865-1866
Blacks codes started to form. They were laws for black people, similar to the Jim Crow laws in the 1900s, that prohibited black people from doing certain things. One drop of black blood made you black. Many black people owned slaves, so when these laws were passed, it now made the black slave owners equal to his slaves. One black ancestor could also make you black. By the 1880s, these laws were gone. -
1865-1869
Andrew Johnson was elected as president, however he was not very popular. He was born in poverty in North Carolina and did not learn to read or write until he was an adult, in which he was taught by his wife. He is pro-union and is concerned with slavery. Congress looked for ways to sabotage him in 1867. -
1865
Because many freedmen were unskilled, without property or money, and had little knowledge of how to survive as free people, Congress created the Freedmen's Bureau on March 3, 1865. It provided clothing, medical care, food, and education to both freedmen and white refugees. The bureau's greatest success was teaching blacks to read. Because it was despised by the President and by Southerners, the Freedmen's Bureau expired in 1872. -
1870-1950
Sharecropping began. This was when people who used to farm land were hired to farm land during the reconstructions era. Some people began to develop share cropping, where a land owner would begin allow a tenant to use the land in return for the crops produced on their portion of land. -
1882-1883
Alexander Stephens was an american politician who served as the 50th governor of Georgia. He wanted things to go back to how they originally were, he did not want people to tart deciding things for the south as they should be allowed to decide what is best for the state. They did not want change and they continued being racist even after the war.