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Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation stating no one can own slaves -
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Reconstruction Era
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Ten Percent Plan
It decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10 percent of voters had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation -
Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln's election
In the United States Presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president -
Wade Davis Bill
The Wade–Davis Bill of 1864 was a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland. -
Confrontation
In 1865 Texans confronted a situation in which new directions could be taken in economic development, political alignments, and social order -
Lincoln got asassination
Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater with his wife and two guests -
Troops came into the states
Their commanders believed that their duty, at least in part, was to ensure loyal government and to protect the rights of the blacks who were free -
Formation of Freedman's Bureau
The Freedman's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedman's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. -
Thirteenth Amendment
Abolished slavery in the states -
Election held that let prewar power reassert itself
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Election of 1866
The Republicans moved to impeach Johnson because of his constant attempts to thwart radical Reconstruction measures. -
Eleventh Legislature met
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Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution was passed by Congress in 1867 -
First Reconstruction Act
An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States. -
Presidential Reconstruction came to an end
Reconstruction was a success in a broad sense, it was a failure in several specific ways. -
Radical Republicans were formed and in action
The Radical Republicans were a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. -
Congress removed civilian government
Set the state's up in military districts -
Removal of Throckmorton
In July General Philip Sheridan removed Throckmorton from the governorship as "an impediment to reconstruction" -
Charles Griffin's death
Charles Griffin's political career ended with his death in September 1867 -
Removal of more than 400 county officials
Put the states in military districts -
Test Oath becomes vacant
Citizens didn't need to take the Oath anymore -
Grant got rid of the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan, was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. -
Election of 1872
Republicans split nationally -
Panic of 1873
Panic of 1873 was the start of the Long Depression, a severe nationwide economic depression in the United States that lasted until 1879 -
Compromise of 1877
An informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election.
