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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
Lincoln's 10% plan stated that a state could be readmitted if 10 percent of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the Union and agreed to the end of slavery. -
Lincoln Vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The Wade-Davis Bill was the Radical Republican answer to Lincoln's 10% Plan. It stated that at least 50% of eligible voters of the Confederate states had to vote accept the end of slavery and grant all African American men the right to vote. -
Lincoln is re-elected
The governers commanded federal troops, whose jobs was to keep order as desperate people tried to return to their lives. Lincoln's plan was to form new governments and asked to return to the Union. -
13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
The Thirteenth Amendment meant they were no longer enslaved and could no longer be owned as property. Neither could they be sold and separated from their families. -
Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedman’s Bureau was established as a welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens. it provided included handing out food and clothing, building schools and hospitals, and helping find missing family members. -
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House-Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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Mississippi encats first black code
Black codes were laws that made African Americans second-class citizens. Black Codes included laws that denied African Americans the right to vote. Some states prohibited intermarrying among blacks and whites, the right to serve on juries and had more severe punishments for black criminals than for white ones. -
Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans insisted that the federal government protect the civil and social rights of newly freed African Americans. The Radical Republicans also favored harsh treatment for Confederate soldiers and office-holders. -
Reconstruction Acts
The 1st reconstruction act divided the South into five military districts, each governed by a general of the Union army and controlled by federal troops. -
Johnson impeached
Johnson was impeached because he violated the tenure of the office act which is a United States federal law that was intended to restrict the power of the President to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate. -
14th Amendment ratified
The Fourteenth Amendment declared the freed slaves citizens, and it guaranteed all citizens equal treatment under the law. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Ulysses S. Grant followed more of an average path for reconstruction. In 1871, President Grant called for the withdrawal of Union troops from the South. The Freedmen’s Bureau also shut down that year. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a resident to use the land in return for crops produced on their portion of land. -
15th Amendment ratified
The Fifteenth Amendment extended voting rights to African American men. -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts were three bills passed by Congress. They were criminal codes which protected African Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws. -
Freedmen’s Bureau terminated
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Amnesty Act of 1872
The Amnesty Act allowed many former Confederates to run for public office. Intimidation and violence kept many African Americans and Republicans away from the polls. -
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
Democrats agreed to accept the ballots that made Hayes the winner in exchange for the Republicans agreeing to withdraw the federal troops from the South.
