Payton's Reconstruction Timeline

  • Lincoln annouces Ten Percent Plan

    The details of his plan is that a state could be put back in the U.S if 10 percent of all the voters promised to the Union to end slavery. The loyalty oath is the pledge of allegience.
  • Lincoln vetoes the Wade Davis Bill

    The Wade Davis Bill required the states to accept the end of slavery and let all african american men to vote.
  • Lincoln is re-elected

  • Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau

    The Freedman's Bureau made a protected group of people and unessisarily gave the power to the federal government.
  • Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War ends

  • Lincoln assasinated and Johnson become President

  • Jonhson declares reconstruction complete

  • 13th Amendment approved and ratified by congress

    This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
  • Johnson declares reconstruction over

  • Mississippi enacted first black codes

    The black codes are laws the made african americans second class citizens and no rights to vote.
  • Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans wanted a lot of change, they wanted slaves to be treated as people and wanted confederate soldiers to get harsh treatment. They were a danger to reconstruction because they threatened the democrats and had very strong views.
  • 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Reconstruction Acts

    This law divided the south into 5 parts. Each part was governed
    by a military leader. Each states had to do three things before they were able to be readmitted to the Union.
  • Johnson Impeached

    Johnson tried to stop the first reconstruction act by firing the secretary of war, so the House of Representatives impeached him for breaking the tenure of office Aat.
  • 14th Amendment Ratified

    This amendment allowed everyone born in the United States citizenship, including former slaves.
  • Ulysses S. Grant Elected

    Grant beat Johnson in the 1868 elections,he was very hated by southern rebels because of his republican views.
  • Sharecropping

    Sharecropping is when someone that owns land rents a piece of their land to someone else and gets a percentage of the crops grown on the rented land.
  • 15th Amendment Ratified

    The 15th amendment guarenteed black men the right to vote.
  • Enforcement Acts

    These acts protected african americans right to vote, be on a jury, hold office, and have equal rights.
  • Amnesty Act of 1872

    This act allowed many former confederates to run for office.
  • Freedmen's Bureau Terminated

  • Lame-Duck Congress Passes Civil Rights Act

  • Disputed Election

  • Hayes Declared Presidnet; Reconstruction Ends

  • Compromise Of 1877

    Democrats agreed to accept ballots that made Hayes the winner of the presidential election if federal troops were withdrawn from the south.