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Linclon issues Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Liclon wanted a moderate policy that would recincile theSouth with the Union instead of punishing it for treason. He offered a generl amnesty to all Southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the US and accept the Union's proclamations concerning slavery. -
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Reconstruction
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Congress passed Wade-Davis Bill but Linclon blocked it with a pocket veto
This bill required the majority of the adult white men in a former Confederate State to take an oath of allegince to the Union. The state could then hold a constitutional convention to create a new state government. -
Union troops settle African Americans in South Carolina and Georgia
To help the freed people feed themselves, Shermn reserved all abondaned plantation land with in 30 miles of the coast from Charleston, SouthCarolina, to Jacksonville, Florida.For use by freed African Americans. -
Congress established Freedmen's Bureau
The refugee crisis promoted Crongress to establish the Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abondaned Lands. the Bureau was given the task of feeding and clothing war refugees in the South using surplus army supplies. -
Linclon was assinated
Linclon was warned not to go anywhere unescorted. He went to Ford's Theatre with his wife to watch a play, unescorted, and got shot by the actor John Wilkes. -
New Proclamation of Amnesty issued
Johnson offered to pardon all former citizens of the Conferdracy who took an oath of loyalty to the Union and to return their property. He excluded from the pardon former Confederate officere and officials as well as all former Confederates who owned property worth more than $20,000. -
Johnson issued Proclamation of North Carolina
This is a model of how Johnson wanted to restore the South to the Union. Each former Confederate state had to call a constitutional convention to tecoke its ordinance of secession and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment. -
Freedmen's Bureau issued nearly 30,000 rations a day for the next year
It helped prevent mass starvation in the South. Gave food to thoes who couldn't feed themselves. -
House and Senate Republicans created the Joint Committee on Reconstruction
The election of former Confederates to office and the introduction of the black codes convienced man moderate Republicans to join the Radicals opposing Johnson's Reconstruction policies. Their goal was to develope thier own program for rebuilding the Union. -
Congress passed Civil Rights act of 1866
The act granted citizenship to all persons born in the US except Native Americans. It allowed African Americans to own property and stated that they were to be treated equally in court -
Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US. Declared that no state could deprive any person of the life, liberty, or property "without due process of law". -
Ku Klux Klan started by former Confederate soldiers in Pulaski, Tennessee
The KKK's goal was to drive out the Union troops, carpet baggers, and regain control of the South for the Democratic Party. Hooded, white-robed Klan members rode in bands at night terrorizing supporters of the Republican governments. -
Congressional Republicans passed the military Reconstruction act
It essentially wiped out Johnson's programs. The act divided the former Confederacy, except for Tennessee, into five military districts. -
House of Representatives voted to impeach President Johnson
The House of Representatives charged Hohnson with "high crimes and misdemeanors" in office. The main charge aginst hin was that he had broken the law by fefusing to uphold the Terue of Office Act. -
Senate voted 35 to19 that Johnson was guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors
seven Republican senators joined with the Democrats in refusing to convict Johnson. These senators believed that it would set a dangerous precedent to impeach a president simply because he did not agree with congressional policies. -
General Grant was elected for president
The presence of Union troops in the South enabled African Americans to vote in large numbers. As a result, Grant won six Southern states and most Northern states. -
Enough states had ratified the Fifteenth Amendment to make it part of the Constitution
Recognizing the importance of African American suffrage, the Republican-led Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied...on accoutn of race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
Congress passed two Enforcement Acts
The first act made it a federal crime to interfere with a citizen's right to vote. the second put federal elections under the supervision of federal marshals. -
Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act
This act outlawed the activities of the Klan. Local authorities and federal agents arrested more than 3,000 Klan members throughout the South. -
Panic of 1873
The panic prompted scores of smaller banks to close and the stock market to plummet. Thousands of susinesses shut down, and tens of thousands of Americans were thrown out of work. -
Whisky Ring Scandal
A group of government officials and distillers in St. Louis cheated the govenrment out of millions of dollars by filing false tex reports. It was reported that Orville E. Bobcock, Grant's private secretary, was in thes group, although the charges were never proven. -
New South
New South- a phrase coined by Henry Grady, Ditor of the Atlanta Constitution. They were convinced that the region had to develope a strong industrial economy -
Compromise of 1877
Historians are not sure if a deal really took place or what its exact terms were. The compromise reportedly included a promise by the Republicans to pull federal troops out of the South, if Hayes was elected.
