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Lincoln releases his 10 percent reconstruction plan. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Abraham_Lincoln_standing_portrait_1863.jpg
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Wade-Davis Bill passes Congress But is pocket-vetoed by Lincoln. The Wade-Davis Bill was a program to reconstruct the south. http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/weblect/lec01/01_2330.jpg
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Johnson moves to reconstuct the south on his own initiative. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/1/1a/20050710030609!President_Andrew_Johnson_standing.jpg
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Congress refuses to seat representatives and senators elected from states reestablished under presidential plan. http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/civilwar/w1865.jpg
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Johnson vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Bill. http://www.picturehistory.com/images/products/1/7/4/prod_17447.jpg
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Johnson vetoes Civil Rights Act; it still passes over his Veto. The Civil Rights Act was made to extend the rights of emancipated slaves. http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/tandy_charlton.jpg
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Congress passes the 14th Amendment. 14th amendment defines citizenship. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/txp_media/html/cons/features/0206_01/slide4.gif
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Republicans increase their congressional majority in the fall elections.
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First Reconstruction Act is passed over Johnson's veto. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/richmond/destruction-richmond-civil-war.jpg
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Johnson is impeached; he aviods conviction by one vote. http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/graphic/xlarge/johnson_impeachment_xl.jpg
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Southern blacks vote and serve in constitutional conventions. http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/Freedmen_Voting__South_Carolina__1868.jpg
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Grant wins presidential election, defeating Horatio Seymour. http://americancivilwar.com/pictures/president_grant.jpg
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Congress passes Fifthteenth Amendment, granting African Americans the right to vote. http://americanhistory.si.edu/Brown/history/1-segregated/images/1st-colored-of-congress-l.jpg
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Congress passes the Ku Klux Klan Acts to protect black voting rights in the south. http://www.britannica.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/kkk.jpg
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Grand re-elected president, defeating Horace Greeley, candidate of Liberal Republicans and Democrats. http://www.chewednews.com/Pictures/Greeley-Brown-Grant-Wilson-campaign-posters-1872.jpg
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Financial panic plunges nation into depression. http://seriesofhopes.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/463px-panic_of_1873_bank_run.jpg
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Congress passes Specie Resumption Act. http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/csl0761l.jpg
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"Whiskey Ring" scandal exposed. http://www.harpweek.com/Images/SourceImages/CartoonOfTheDay/March/031876m.jpg
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Disputed presidential election resolved in favor of Republican Hayes over Democrat Tilden. http://www.officemuseum.com/Governor_Samuel_J._Tilden_of_New_York_Transacting_Business_Executive_Chamber_Albany_F_Leslies_Feb_20_1875_OM.jpg
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Compromise of 1877 ends military intervention in the south and causes fall of the last Radical governments. http://www.presidentprofiles.com/images/prh_01_img0042.jpg
