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Lincoln announces "10 percent" Reconstruction plan
Lincoln's blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan, which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The bill passed both houses of Congress on July 2, 1864, but was pocket vetoed by Lincoln and never took effect. The Radical Republicans were outraged that Lincoln did not sign the bill. Lincoln wanted to mend the Union by carrying out the Ten percent plan. -
Fifteenth Amendment ratified
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Roosevelt elected president
In 1921, Roosevelt contracted a paralytic illness, which left his legs permanently paralyzed. In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide. Roosevelt took office while the United States was in the midst of the worst economic crisis in its history. -
Taft elected president
President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, a position in which he served until a month before his death.With Roosevelt's help, Taft had little opposition for the Republican nomination for president in 1908 and easily defeated William Jennings Bryan for the presidency that November. -
Wilson wins reelection
Incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson defeated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. Wilson was only sitting Democratic president to win re-election between 1832 and 1936. ... The election took place during the time of the Mexican Revolution and Europe's involvement in World War I.
