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Reconstruction
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reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
President Lincoln offered presidential pardon to any rebel who promised loyalty to the union and respected its laws involving slavery. -
Lincoln Vetoes Wade-Davis bill
Sponsored by radical Republicans that outlined stricter requierments for re-admission to the union during the period of reconstruction -
Lincolns relection
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by congress
Abolished slavery in the United States. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House-Civil War ends
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Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
Established to aid freed slaves in the south during the reconstruiction era in the United States. -
Lincoln assasinated;Johnson becomes president
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Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Mississippi enacts first Black Code
Laws passed by Southern states to restrict African Americans freedom -
Radical Republicans
planed to reconstruct the south after the civil war.These people belived that African Americans deserved the same rights as white people. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The first Reconstruction act divided the South (except Tenneesee) into five military districts -
Johnson impeached
Andrew Johnson was impeached due to a violation of the Tenure of Office Act -
Ulysses S.Grant is elected
symbol of union victory during the civil war and helped out Lincoln win the civil war. -
14th Amendment ratified
The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all born or from the United States. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops they made -
15th Amendment ratified
Granted African Americans the right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
Criminal codes which protected african americans right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and recieve equal protection -
Freedmen's Bereau terminated
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Amnesty Act of 1872
United States Federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the scessionists -
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
pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South also ended the Reconstruction Era.
