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President Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation stating no one can own slaves
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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
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In the United States Presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president
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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.
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In 1865 Texans confronted a situation in which new directions could be taken in economic development, political alignments, and social order
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Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater with his wife and two guests
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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
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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.
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Abolished slavery in the states
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The Republicans moved to impeach Johnson because of his constant attempts to thwart radical Reconstruction measures.
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The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution was passed by Congress in 1867
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An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States.
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Reconstruction was a success in a broad sense, it was a failure in several specific ways.
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The Radical Republicans were a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877.
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Set the state's up in military districts
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In July General Philip Sheridan removed Throckmorton from the governorship as "an impediment to reconstruction"
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Charles Griffin's political career ended with his death in September 1867
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Put the states in military districts
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Citizens didn't need to take the Oath anymore
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Ku Klux Klan, was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865.
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Republicans split nationally
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Panic of 1873 was the start of the Long Depression, a severe nationwide economic depression in the United States that lasted until 1879
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An informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election.
