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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
The Ten Percent Plan specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. -
Lincoln Vetoes Wade Davis Bill
The Wade Davis Bill required 50% of a state's male voters to take an oath that they never voluntarily supported the confederacy -
Lincoln Re-elected
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Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau assisted freed men in transition from slavery to freedom at the end of the Civil War. -
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House -Civil War ends
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Lincoln assasinated; Johnson becomes President
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Mississippi enacts first Black Code
The black codes restricted African American's abilities to work and have freedom -
Johnson Declares reconstruction complete
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by congress
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States -
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They opposed lincoln -
1st,2nd,3rd Reconstruction Acts
The 1st Reconstruction Act divided the South (except Tennessee) into five military districts in which the authority of the army commander was supreme. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Ulysses S. Grant was a Union general who led the Union to victory during the American Civil War. -
Johnson impeached
He was impeached because of political conflict and the rupture of ideologies in the aftermath of the American Civil War. -
14th Amendment ratified
the 14th amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. -
15th Amendment Ratified
15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
The Amnesty Act of 1872 removed voting and office-holding restrictions on most former members of the Confederacy. -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
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Lame-Duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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Disputed Election
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Hayes declared President and Reconstruction ends
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Compromise of 1877
Compromise of 1877 was a informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era
