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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A state could be readmitted if 10 percent of it's voters swore a loyalty oath to the Union and agreed to end of slavery. -
Lincoln Re-elected
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Lncoln vetoes Wade-Davis-Bill
Wade-Davis-Bill:This Bill required the states to accept the end of slavery and to grant all afrcan american men the right to vote. -
Congress creates Freedmen Bureau
Freedmen Bureau is that congress to help former black slaves and poor white men in the south in the aftermath of the U.S Civil. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House-Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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Mississipi enact first Black Codes
Black codes was law that had intent and the effect of restricting African American Fredom. -
13th Amendment approved and ratified by congress
The 13th amendement meant they were no longer enslaved and could no longer be owned as property. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete.
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Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans were a wing of the Republican Party organized around an uncompromising opposition to slavery before and during the Civil War and a vigorous campaign to secure rights for freed slaves during Reconstruction. -
1st,2nd and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The act applied to all the ex-Confederate states in the South, except Tennessee who had already ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. It split the states into five military districts. -
Johnson impeached
The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson was the result of political conflict and the rupture of ideologies in the aftermath of the American Civil War. -
14th Amendment rafited
The 14th amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws. -
Ulysses S.Grant elected
Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero. -
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
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War. -
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; Reconstruction ends
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Compromise of 1877
he Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election.
