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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
This was a plan to decreed that a state should be reintegrated into the union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state. -
Lincoln re-elected
Lincoln gets re-elected to serve more terms as president. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill (this is part of Radical Reconstruction)
On this day Abe Lincoln vetoed the Wade Davis Bill which was a bill for the reconstruction of the south written by Benjamin Wade and Henry Davis. -
13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
The 13th Amendment was approved and abolished slavery in the U.S. and provides that neither slavery nor involuntary slavery servitude, except as a punishment or crime. -
Congress creates Freedman's Bureau
This was an act to aid former slaves through food and housing, education, oversight, and health care. -
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House - Civil War ends
Lee surrendered his remining troops to General Grant at Mclean House. 4years later the U.S. began the Road to Reunion. -
Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
With abe being assassinated Johnson (the vice president) becomes President of the U.S., he once was a democrat who ran with Lincoln on the National union ticket. -
Mississippi enacts first black code
When this happened people saw that this act was proved to be harsh and vindictive. This code pushed black people even farther from having freedom. This was mainly not letting blacks have the ability to vote and if they didn't have a job they were to get arrested. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
The reconstruction had two senses, one was to complete the entire country from 1865 to 1877 after the civil war. The next one was focused on the transformation of the Southern United States. -
Radical Republicans
These were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the U.S. until the end of the Reconstruction in 1877. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The 1st reconstruction act divided the South into 5 military districts to where the authority of the army commander was supreme. -
Johnson impeached
Johnson was impeached February 24, 1868 in the U.S. House of Represenatives. -
14th Amendment ratified
This was a proposal by the U.S. that was sent to the states for ratification since the constitution was put into operation in 1789. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Grant aligned himself with the radical republicans, he was known as the union victory during the war. -
Sharecropping
When a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. It's also a system of agriculture. -
15th amendment ratified
This amendment gave black people the right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
They were criminal codes that protected blacks rights to vote. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
This was a U.S. federal law that removed voting from people who rebelled against the civil war. -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
This was to aid african american slaves in the south. -
Lame duck congress passes Civil Rights Act
An effort to maintain reconstruction and later managed to pass a civil rights bill. -
Disputed election
This was the 23rd quadrennial election held on November 7, 1876. -
Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends
Haves served as a member of the representatives from 1865-68 and then he voted in favor for Andrew Johnson's impeachment.
