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Reconstruction and the New South

By mrsfoster
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    Reconstruction and the New South

  • Lincoln Introduces the ten-percent plan

    Lincoln Introduces the ten-percent plan

    LIncoln wanted a speedy recovery from the Civil War
  • Thirteenth Amendment Passed

    Thirteenth Amendment Passed

  • Freedmen's Bureau Established

    Freedmen's Bureau Established

    PBS page The Freemen's Bureau served these basic purposes:
    * to oversee the schools for freed slaves
    * to settle disputes and enforce contracts between white plantation owners and black workers
    *ensuring justice in black courts
  • Lee surrendered at Appomatox

    Lee surrendered at Appomatox

    Eyewitness Accounts
  • Lincoln is Assassinated

    Lincoln is Assassinated

  • Congress tries to Impeach Johnson

    Congress tries to Impeach Johnson

    http://teachingamericanhistory.org/static/neh/interactives/impeach/
  • Fourteenth Amendment Passed

    Fourteenth Amendment Passed

    Fourteent Amendment The Fourteenth Amendment gave all Americans (ex
  • Ullysses Grant Elected Preside t

    Ullysses Grant Elected Preside t

  • Fifteenth Amendment Ratified

    Fifteenth Amendment Ratified

    Fifteenth Amendment
  • Klu Klux Klan Act Passed

    Klu Klux Klan Act Passed

  • The Election of 1876

    The Election of 1876

    The election of 1876