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Reconstruction
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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 the end of slavery. -
Licoln re-elected
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Lincol vetoes Wade davis bill
required the states to accept the endo of slavery, and grant all African American men the right to vote -
Congress creates freedmans bureau
The overall goal was to help the slaves transition to freedom. It provided food, clothing, and shelter to tens of thousands of newly freed African Americans. -
13th amendment approved and ratified by congress
This amendment abolished slavery, and it was enforced by the union ary -
Lee surrenders at Appomattox court house-Cvil war ends
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Lincoln Assasinated- Johnson becomes president
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Mississippi enacts first black code
these wre laws that downgraded the african Americans to a lower social class than the whites. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical republicans
Radical republicans opposed slavery and voted for civil rights and equality. They distusted ex-confederates which could lead to harsh behavior -
1st, 2nd and 3rd reconstruction acts
This act applied to the old confederate states, and it split them into five military parts- watched by a northern officer to keep order and peace -
Johnson impeached
Stanton refused to yield, holding himself in his office, and the House of Representatives, which had already discussed impeachment after Johnson’s first dismissal of Stanton, initiated formal impeachment proceedings against the president. -
14th amendment ratified
this amenment garuntees citizenship for "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" -
ulysses S. Granted elected
Grant was not politically inexperienced,but he was also at the age of 46 becoming the youngest president there has been so far -
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. -
the 15th amendment ratified
the 15th amendment granted African-American men the right to vote, -
Enforcement acts
They were criminal codes which protected the African-Americans right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and to receive equal protection of laws. -
Freedmas Bureau terminated
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Amnesty act of 1872
this was a federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, -
Lame duck congress passes civil rights act
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Disputed election
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Hayes declared president, Reconstuction ends
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compromise of 1877
after the presidential election of 1876, the outcome of the race was held largely on disputed returns from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina,the only three states in the South with Reconstruction,era Republican governments still in power. te cogress debated over the outcome early in 1877,