Reconstruction

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  • The Wade-Davis Bill

    The Wade-Davis Bill
    The Radicals responded to the Ten-Percent Plan by passing the Wade-Davis Bill. This bill proposed that Congress, not the president, be responsible for Reconstruction.

  • Johnson Continuing Licoln's Policies

    Johnson announced while Congress was in recess that each remaining Confederate state could be readmitted to the Union if it would meet several conditions.

  • Fourteenth Amendment

    Fourteenth Amendment
    The Civil Rights Act of 1866 became the first major legislation ever enacted over a presidential veto. In addition, Congress drafted the Fourteenth Amendment, which provided a constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Acts.

  • Freedmen's Bureau

    Freedmen's Bureau
    Congress voted to continue and enlarged the Freedmen's Bureau. The bureau, establish by Congress in the last nothing of the war, assisted for me slaves and poor whites in the South by distribution

  • 1866 Congressional Electrons

    In the 1866 elections, moderate and Radical Republicans won a landslide victory over the Democrats. The Republicans gained a two-thirds majority in vetoes.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Civil Rights Act of 1866
    The Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discriminatory laws such an the black codes that severely restricted African Americans' lives.

  • Johnson's Impeachment

    Johnson's Impeachment
    The Radicals looked for grounds on which to impeach the president, to formally charge him with misconduct in office. Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, which stated that the president could not remove cabinet officers "during the term of the president by whom they may have been appointed" without consent of the Senate.

  • Ulysses S. Grant Elected

    Ulysses S. Grant Elected
    The Democrats knew that they could not win the 1868 presidential election with Johnson, so they nominated the wartime governor of New York, Horatio Seymour. After the election, the Radicals feared that pro-Confederate Southern whites might try to limit black suffrage. Therefore, the Radicals introduced the Fifteenth Amendment, which states that no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."