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Ten-Percent Plan
This was started before the end of the war and helped to bring forth the reconstruction of our nation. The ten-percent plan, also known as the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, stated that the government would pardon all Confederates except for high-ranking Confederate officials and those accused of crimes against prisoners of war. -
The Wade-Davis Bill and the Freedman´s Bureau
Many of the Radical Republicans thought that President Lincoln´s plan was too lenient, they wanted the South to be punished for succeeding. The Wade-Davis Bill stated that the states could be readmitted after 50 percent of voters took an oath of allegiance to the Union. -
President Abraham Lincoln´s assassination
President Lincoln´s assassination was unexpected and pretty much brought things into chaos. The people were without a leader for the reconstruction of our nation, and it made reconstruction difficult for a while. -
Civil Rights Act
Johnson tried to veto the renewed Freedman´s bureau but congress came back for the first time ever and gave a 2/3 vote to keep it. This act granted newly emancipated blacks the right to sue, the right to serve on juries and many other legal rights. -
Ku Klux Klan
This was a group of people who terrorized southern blacks and whites alike to keep the blacks ¨in their place.¨ They came around right after the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed. These people held race riots and committed mass murders. -
First Reconstruction Act
This act divided the South into five districts led by military until they could establish a new government. With this act Republicans specified that they would have to give former slaves the right to vote before readmitting to the Union. -
Second Reconstruction Act
This act was kind of a backup for the First Reconstruction Act. What this act did was put the military in charge of southerner voting registration. -
Sharecroppers
Sharecroppers were former slaves who leased part of their land to their former masters for a percentage of the crop yield. By 1880 more than 80 percent of southern blacks had become sharecroppers. The problem with this though was that they were made sure to get such a small amount of pay that they would never be able to escape poverty,
