Major Events of the Reconstruction Era

  • President Lincoln announced his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction also known as the 10 Percent Plan

    President Lincoln announced his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction also known as the 10 Percent Plan
  • Radicals responded to the Ten-Percent Plan by passing the Wade-Davis Plan

    Radicals responded to the Ten-Percent Plan by passing the Wade-Davis Plan
  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Civil Rights Act of 1866
    Gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discriminatory laws
  • Lincoln's Assassination

    Lincoln's Assassination
  • Johnson announced his own plan, Presidential Recontruction

  • Moderate republicans joined with Radicals to override the presidents vetos of Civil Rights and Freedman's Bureau acts

    Moderate republicans joined with Radicals to override the presidents vetos of Civil Rights and Freedman's Bureau acts
  • Reconstruction Act of 1867 passed

    did not recognize state governments formed under the Lincoln and Johnson plans- except for that Tennessee, which had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment and had been readmitted to the union
  • Fourteenth Amendment Ratified

    Fourteenth Amendment Ratified
    all persons born or naturalized in the united states citizens of the country