Brenda's Reconstruction timeline

  • Lincoln announces ten percent plan

    Lincoln announces ten percent plan
    A state could be readmitted if 10% of the voters swore loyality to the union and agreed to end slavery.
  • Lincoln vetoes wade-Davis Bill

    Lincoln vetoes wade-Davis Bill
    Made the states agree to end slavery and let all African American men to vote.
  • Lincoln re-elected

    Lincoln re-elected
  • Johnson declares reconstruction complete

    Johnson declares reconstruction complete
  • Congress creates Freedmen's bureau

    Congress creates Freedmen's bureau
    One piece of early reconstruction legislation was effctive in helping formely enslaves person's.
  • Lee surrenders at Appomattox court house-Cilvil war ends

    Lee surrenders at Appomattox court house-Cilvil war ends
  • Mississippi enacts first black code.

    Mississippi enacts first black code.
    Laws that made African Americans secound class citizens, Included laws that denied them the right to vote.
  • Lincoln assassinated ; Johnson becomes president

    Lincoln assassinated ; Johnson becomes president
  • 13th Admendment approved and ratified by congress

    13th Admendment approved and ratified by congress
    They weren't longer enslaved anmd could no llonger be property.
  • Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans
    Deepened the divison among republicans in congress.The congress supported lincoln's plan for reconstruction and they opposed it.
  • 1st,2nd,and 3rd Reconstruction acts

    1st,2nd,and 3rd Reconstruction acts
    3 relatated acts that were divided th weSouth into 5 military districts.
  • Johnson impeached

    Johnson impeached
    Johnson removal of secruarity of war
  • Ulysses S, Grant elected

    Ulysses S, Grant elected
    He worked with Abraham Lincoln to lead the union army to victory over the confederacy in the American cilvil war.
  • 14th Admendment ratified

    14th Admendment ratified
    National citizenship and forbidding the states to restict the basic rughts of all people.
  • Sharecropping

    Sharecropping
    A system of alguriculture in which a land owner uses the landin retuen for a share of the crops in produce.
  • 15th Amendment Ratifed

    15th Amendment Ratifed
    State government from denying a citizens the rights to votwe bases on race,color,etc,
  • Enforcement Acts

    Enforcement Acts
    3 bills passed by the united sates congress.
  • Freedmen's Bureau terminated

    Freedmen's Bureau terminated
  • Amnesty Act of 1872

    Amnesty Act of 1872
    A United states federal law that removed voting restrications.
  • Lame-duck congress passes Cilvil Rights act

    Lame-duck congress passes Cilvil Rights act
    The United states occurs whenever one congress meets after its succesor is elected.
  • Disputed election

    Disputed election
  • Compromise of 1877

    Compromise of 1877
    A purpoted informal unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876.
  • Hayes declared president ; Reconstruction ends

    Hayes declared president ; Reconstruction ends