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reconstruction
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Lincoln Announces Ten Percent Plan
a state could be readmitted if 10% of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the union & agreed to end of slavery. -
Lincoln Re-Elected
lincoln was re-elected. -
lincoln vetos the wade-davis bill
a bill that required the african american men the right to vote. -
Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
it was a welfare agency that was meant to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War Ends
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Lincoln Assasinated- Johnson becomes President
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13th amendment approved and ratified by congress
african americans were no longer enslaved and could no longer be owned as property. -
mississippi enacts first black code
laws that made african americans second class citizens -
johnson declares reconstruction complete
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radical republicans
believed johnsons leniency toward the formal rebels was endangering reconsstruction. also believed johnsons polocies encouraged southern states to resist accepting african americans as full citizens. 9startd to vocally oppose johnson's polocies) -
johnson impeached
he vetoed the Tenue Of Office Act & congress overrode his veeto. he became unpopular and didnt win the next presidential vote. -
14th amendment ratified
granted freedom of equality to all people and presidential election -
ulysses s.grant elected
he was a republican. he also had a reasonable path for the reconstruction. -
sharecropping
a system when formerly enslaved persons found themselves working for theif former masters. (often left laborers/sharecroppers in debt) -
15th amendment was ratified
prohibited states from denying voting rights because of race. -
enforcement acts
3 bills passed by the congress that protected the african americans right to vote, hold office, serve on juries and recieve equal protection of laws. -
freedman's bureau terminated.
congress rejected johnson's plan to close the freedan's bureau which remained in place until 1872. -
amnesty act of 1872
allowed many former confederates to run for public office. intimidation and violence kept republicans and many african americans away from the polls. -
Lame-Duck Congress Passes Civil Rights Act
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Disputed Election
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hayes declared president. reconstruction ends.
hayes won the election -
compromise of 1877
when the democrats agreed to accept the ballots that made hayes the winnerin exchange for the republicans agreeing to withdraw the federal troops from the south
