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Kym's reconstruction timeline
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A state could rejoin a Union if 10 percent of it's voters swore a loyalty oath and agreed to the end of slavery. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
Required the states to accept the end of slavery and to allow all the African American men to vote. -
Lincoln re-elected
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
Declared that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall excist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. By passing the 13th amendment, Congress ended slavery in North America forever. -
Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
Its welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens. It included handing out food and clothing, building schools and hospitals, and helping find missing family members. -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
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Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War Ends
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Mississippi enacts first Black Code
The black codes were laws passed by the south that restricted blacks to work or own land. The south also restricted their freedom. -
Johnson declares reconstuction complete
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
It abolished slavery in North Amderica, but the punishment for crime still had to be accepted. -
Radical Republicans
The Radical Republicans were a wing of the Republican party that were organized around and uncompromised opposition to slavery. They believed that blacks deserve the same rights as whites. -
1st, 2nd, 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The first reconstruction act divided the South into 5 different parts, each of which will be governed by the U.S military. -
Johnson Impeached
President Andrew Johnson vetoed many bills that were passed by congress. Congress did not like this and they felt that Johnson was abusing his power as president, so they wanted to get rid of him. -
14th Amendment ratified
The 14th amendment addressed citizens' rights and equal protection of the laws. It was proposed to resolve the issues of slavery. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
He was a president that worked with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the union army to victory. -
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 granted African American men the right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
The enforcement acts were 3 bills passed by the US Congress. They were criminal codes, which protects the African American rights to vote, hold office, serve juries, and recieve equal protection -
Amnesty Act of 1872
U.S. federal law that was removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War. -
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
A purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.
