jennifers reconstruction timeline

By j.ennn
  • Period: to

    reconstruction

  • Lincoln announces Ten percent Plan

    Lincoln announces Ten percent Plan

    means that the state would be admitted if the ten percent of the voters promised a pledge of allegiance to the union and to agree to end slavery.
  • Lincoln veotes Wade-Davis Bill

    Lincoln veotes Wade-Davis Bill

    A bill that required 50% of states voters.
  • Lincoln re-elected

    Lincoln re-elected

  • Congress creates freedmens Bureau

    Congress creates freedmens Bureau

    helped black slaves and poor whites in the south
  • Lee surrenders at appomattox court house-civil war ends

    Lee surrenders at appomattox court house-civil war ends

  • Lincoln assaisinated; Johnson becomes president

    Lincoln assaisinated; Johnson becomes president

  • Mississippi enacts first black code

    Mississippi enacts first black code

    The black codes were laws passed by southern states, it also made the african americans work on poor labor with little money given.
  • Johnson decalres reconstruction complete

    Johnson decalres reconstruction complete

  • 13th Amendement approved and ratified by congress

    13th Amendement approved and ratified by congress

    African American were no longer as slaves and could no longer be owned as property
  • Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans

    The Radical Republicans were the wing of the Republican party
  • 1st, 2nd, and 3rd reconstruction acts

    1st, 2nd, and 3rd reconstruction acts

    The first act divided the south into five different military districts with one person in charge
  • Johnson impeached

    Johnson impeached

    He was impeached because of political conflict
  • 14th amendment ratified

    14th amendment ratified

    the 14th amendment was to people who were born in the US it gave them citizenship
  • Sharecropping

    Sharecropping

    Share cropping is a system of algriculture. It also involves a landowner & a tenant
  • 15th amendment ratified

    15th amendment ratified

    no person can be denied in the United States by the color race or anything dealing with their physical appearance. also lets you vote
  • Enforcement Acts

    Enforcement Acts

    Three bills passed by congress witch held the African Americans right to vote & to be apart of public political decisions.
  • Amnesty Act of 1872

    Amnesty Act of 1872

    A law that removes voting limits
  • Freedmen's Bureau terminated

    Freedmen's Bureau terminated

  • Lame duck Congress passes Civil rights Act

    Lame duck Congress passes Civil rights Act

  • Disputed Election

    Disputed Election

  • compromise of 1877

    compromise of 1877

    an unwritten deal, and ended reconstruction era.
  • Hayes decalred president; Reconstruction ends

    Hayes decalred president; Reconstruction ends