Mimi's Reconstruction Timeline

By amilianp
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    Hayes declared president: Recontruction Ends

  • Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan

    The details of the Ten Percent Plan are a state could be radmitted if 10 percent of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the Union and agreed to the end of slavery.

  • Lincoln re-elected

  • Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill

    The Wade-Davis Bill is when states were required to accept the end of slavery and to grant all African American men the right to vote.

  • Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau

    The Freedmen's Bureau was a welfare agency used to help the enslaved persons become full time citizens.

  • Thirteenth Amendment approved and ratified by Congress

    The thirteenth amendment meant African Americans were no longer enslaved and could no longer be property. They also couldn't be sold or seperated.

  • Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House-Civil War ends

  • LIncoln Assasinated; Johnson becomes president

  • Mississippi enacts first Black Code

    Black Codes are codes that made African-Americans second class citizens. It denied them the right to vote.

  • Johnson declares reconstruction complete

  • Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans are republicans who are in favor of EXTREME change.They believed they should protect the freed slaves rights. They also believed the Confederate soldiers should suffer, though.

  • Reconstruction Acts

    The 1st reconstruction act is

  • Johnson impeached

    Johnson was impeached

  • 14th amendment ratified

    The 14th amendment granted everyone their rights, including former slaves.

  • Ulysses S. Grant elected

    Ulysses S. Grant had some success in the office. Hegave jobs to people of bad character.

  • Sharecropping

    Sharecropping is when a landowner rents a piece of land to a farmer in exchange for a crop grown by the farmer.

  • 15th amendment ratified

    The 15th amendment granted African-American men the right to vote

  • Enforcement Acts

    The Enforcement acts were three bills passed to protect African Americans right to vote, hold office and protect laws.

  • Amnesty Act of 1872

  • Freedmen's Bureau terminated

  • Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act

  • Disputed Election

  • Compromise of 1877

    The compromise of 1877 is when democrats agreed to accept the Hayes ballots for him to win in exchange for the republicans agrreing to withdarw fedearl troops from the South.