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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A state would be able to be readmitted if ten percent of the states voters swore allegiance to the Union and if they also agreed to help end slavery. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
This bill required the states to accept the end of slavery and to give all African American men the right to vote. This bill had more than half of the states voters to sign the loyalty oath before that state could be readmitted. -
Lincoln is re-elected
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Congress creates Freedom's Bureau
Created by Congress to help the former black slaves and the poor whites in the south after the Civil War ended. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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Johnson delcares reconstrustion complete
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Mississippi enacts first Black Codes
The Black Codes are the laws that made African American second-class citizens. The Black Codes included laws that denied African Americans the right to vote and the right to serve on juries. Some states even prohibitted intermarrying between the blacks and whites -
13th Amendment approved and ratified by congress
The African Americans were no longer ensalved and could no longer be owned as property. They could not be sold and or seperated from their families. -
Radical Republicans
The Radicals strongly opposed slavery before, during and after the war. They vowed to protect the African Americans from violence and to control Soutern Resistance to political and social change. -
1st, 2nd and 3rd Reconstruction Act
The 1st Reconstruction Act divided the South except for Tennessee into five military districts where the authorty of the Army was supreme. The 1st Reconstruction Act also demanded new state delegates, constitutions, the ratification of the 14th amendment and equal rights to everyone. -
Johnson impeached
President Johnson was impeached because he tried to fire Edwin M. Stati=on to stop Military Reconstruction and palnned to eplace him with someone who would no enforce the law. After the house of Representatives found out they tried to get rid of his by accusing him of many things. At first they did not find him guilty until later with the Supreme Courts help. -
14th Amendment ratified
This Amendment protected African Americans voting rights, Guarenteed equal protectionof the law, they could not pass laws that explicity discriminated against African Americans. This law also prohibitied racial segregation laws.The main purpose of this Amendment was to undo legal conession that had been made to slavery since the writing in the constitution. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
President Grant was known as the Northern hero of the Civil War and won the election against Johnson. He would be following a more modest path for the Reconstruction. Then in 1871, he called for a withdrawal of the Union troops from the South, it was then that the Freedmen's Bureau shut down. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is when a landowner rented out a piece of their land to a farmer in excahnge for a share of the crops that that farmer grew on their land. The landowner would also provide seed and even sometimes a few tools on credit. The sharecropper (the person who was renting the land) would be done after selling and harvesting the crops that they grew. -
15th Amendment ratified
The 15th Amendment protected the voting rights by prohibiting states from denying voting rights becasue of someones race -
Enforcement Acts
These were 3 bills that were passed by congress, these protected African Americans right to vote, hold office, serve on juries and recieve equal protection from laws. -
Amesty Act of 1872
The Amesty Act was the act of forgivness, to most southerners who had fought for the confederacy. -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
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Lame-duct 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
The members of the comission reached this compromise. The Democrats agreed to accept the ballots that made Hayes the winner in excahnge for the Republicans agreeing to withdraw the federal troops from the south.
