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1885 BCE
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant, was the supreme Union general during the civil war and then later the 18th president. Grant worked to help implement reconstruction. -
Radical Republicans.
The radical republicans were a faction of the republican party. They were imposing a harsh version of the former confederate states following the civil war. -
Lincoln's Ten-Percent Plan
December 1863, President Lincoln announced his proclamation of Amnesty and reconstruction. The government would pardon all confederates and also except higher wages. -
The Wade Davis Bill
This was proposed for the reconstruction of the South. This was written by two Radical republicans. -
Johnson Declares End to Reconstruction
President Johnson declares the reconstruction process complete. Radical Republicans in Congress refuse to recognize new governments in southern states. -
Impeachment of Andrew Jackson
The radical republican Congress tried very hard to remove Andrew Jackson from office. This was part of the struggle between Johnson who tried hard. The impeachment, not supported by many, failed by one vote. -
Thaddeus Stevens
He was one of the main leaders during the reconstruction. Stevens was an opponent of slavery before the war. He, after the war sought to secure the rights of the newly freed population in the former confederacy. -
Depression of 1873
Northern voters became decreasingly interested in southern Reconstruction. With unemployment high and hard currency scarce, northerners were more concerned with their own financial well-being than in securing rights for freedmen, punishing the Ku Klux Klan, or readmitting secessionist states.
