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10 percent plan
Re- admits southern states when 10 percent of 1860 voters profess loyalty to Union. -
Wade-Davis Bill
Retains 10 percent "easy-admission" policy -
Milestones
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
Andrew Johnson becomes president
Johnson issues amnesty proclamation
States ratify Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery -
Black Codes
Southern states enact black codes/ special laws passed by southern state and municipal governments after the civil war that denied free blacks many rights of citizenship. -
Freedmens Bureau
Established to create ease in transition from slavery to freedom, promotes education and economic opportunities for former slaves and destitute whites. -
Southern States Readmitted
Andrew Johnson pardons many confederates and recommends admission of all former confederate states... all souther states are readmitted. -
civil rights act
Congress passes Civil rights act over Johnsons veto, Republicans in congress dominate federal government washington. -
Reconstruction Act
First reconstruction act puts former confederacy under military rule. -
Tenure of Office Act
protects senate appointees, prohibits president from removing high officials -
Grant elected president
Further increases republican domination -
Milestones
House of representatives impeach johnson
Fourth reconstruction act requires a majority of southern voters to ratify state constitutions.
senate aquits johnson.
States ratify Fourteenth Amendment extending rights to freed slaves.
Ulysses S. Grant is elected president.
Ku Klux Klan uses intimidation and force throughtout South -
Fourteenth Amendment (ratified 1870)
Prohibits voting restrictions on basis of race -
Fifteenth Amendment
Granting black sufferage -
Force Acts
Federal control of elections in south, destroys Klu Klux Klan -
President Grant re-elected
Grant is reelected running against liberal republican party nominee Horace Greeley -
Rutherford B. Hayes Runs against Samuel Tilden
disputed presidential election -
Compromise of 1877
Brokered arrangement where republican and democratic leaders agreed to settle the disputed 1876 election. Democrats allowed returns that ensured the election of Hayes and republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops ending reconstruction.
