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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
President Lincoln announced the Ten percent plan in December. The government would pardon all confederates except high ranking confederate officials and those accused of crimes. -
Wade- Davis Bill
In July of 1864, the radicals responded to the ten percent plan by passing the Wade-Davis Bill. It declared for a state government to to be formed. -
Johnson Plan
Lincoln´s assassination in April 1865 left his successor, the democrat Andrew Johnson to deal with the Reconstruction controversy. -
Johnson Continues
In May, with congress in recess, Johnson announced his own plan, Presidential Reconstruction. He declared that each state remaining confederate state could be remitted to the union if it would meet several conditions -
Presidential Reconstruction comes to standstill
When the 39th convened in December 1865, the Radical Republican legislators, led by Thaddeus Stevens, disputed the claim that Reconstruction was complete. -
Reconstruction Act
Radicals and moderates joined in passing the reconstruction act of 1867. The act divided the other ten former confederate states into five military districts. -
Johnson Impeachment
Radical leaders felt Johnson was not carrying out his constitutional obligation to enforce the Reconsruction act. He removed military officers who enforced the act. -
Fifteenth amendment
The fifteenth amendment was ratified by the states in 1870. Which states that no one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.¨