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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
"The plan included amnesty for rebel soldiers and a plan for readmission to the union of the southern states." If 10 percent of the voters swore a loyal oath to the union the state could be readmitted, and also if they agrred to end slavery. Lincoln thought that his plan can help weaken the confederacy. -
Lincoln re-elected
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Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The bill required the states to agree to end slavery and also accept that all African American men to vote. -
13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
Meant there were no longer enslaved and the african americans can not own land, the whites can no longer sell them or separate from there families. -
Mississippi enacts first Black Code
The Black Codes were laws that made the African Americans second class citizens and the Black Codes also denied the African Americans the right to vote. -
Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
To help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S Civil War. -
Lee Surreners at Appomattox Cour House-Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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Radical Republicans
The american politicians within the Republicans of the United States. Some people did not like them and did not approve of what they do. So some of the people sometimes harm the Radical Republicans. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
It was also known as Military Reconstruction act. The act applied to all the ex-Confederate states in the South except for Tennessee. -
Johnson impeached
The House of Reresentatives wrote 11 articles of impeachment against Johnson. He was the 1st prsident to get impeached. -
14th Amendment ratfied
The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all personf who were born in the United States or naturalized which includes slaves. -
Ulysses S. Grano elected
Ulysses helped the Union Win the War. He was respected by many people. Ulysses helped protect African American rights. -
Sharecropping
A farmer that gives part of there crops as a rent. A farmer in the South who raised crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops. -
15th Amendment ratified
The 15th amendment granted African Americans the right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts were bills passed by the Congress. They were criminal codes that protected the African Americans the right to vote. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
It was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions against most of the secessionist who rebelled. -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
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Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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Disputed election
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Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends
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Compromise of 1877
It was an unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed. It also pulled federal troops out of the politics in the South.
