Reconstruction timeline

By Jtaylor5457

  • Ten Percent plan is announced

    The Ten Percent Plan states that if ten percent of a former Confederate state's voters swore loyalty to the Union and to the end of slavery, then that state could re-enter to the Union

  • Lincon vetoes Wade-Davis bill

    The Wade-Davis Bill stated that if half of the voters in a state agree to the end of slavery, then all of the African American men in that state would be allowed to vote.

  • Lincoln re-elected

  • 13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress

    The Thirteenth Amendment gve freedom to slaves so they would not be considered property and be sold or traded.

  • Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau

    The Freedmen's Bureau was created as an agency to help former slaves become citizens with equal rights and to give them supplies to help them get aquaited with their newfound freedom.

  • Lee Surrenders at the Appomattox Court House and ends the Civil War

  • Lincoln is assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes president

  • Mississippi enacts first Black Code

    Black Codes are laws that turned African Americans into second-class citizens and denied them basic rights.

  • Johnson declares that Reconstruction has been completed

  • Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans are Republicans who have strong feelings toward the freedom of slaves. They favored harsh treatment towards former Confederate soldiers and would do anything to help the slaves become freedmen, threatened to start another war

  • 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts

    \The 1st Reconstruction Act, or the Military Reconstruction Act, split the South into five military districts, each one was governed by a Union general and controlled by federal troops. To be reenter the Union, they had to create a new constitution that would be approved by Congress, ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, and guarantee the right to vote to African Americans. Also, former Confederates had to take an oath stating their loyalty to the U.S

  • President Johnson Impeached

    Johnson tried to stop Military Reconstruction by getting rid of the secretary of war and replacing him with someine that wouldn't enforce the laws.

  • Sharecropping

    Sharecropping is system of working land owned by others for a share of the field. The sharecropping and tenant system was widespread following the Civil War during the reconstruction period

  • 15th Amendment ratified

    The 15th Amendment prohibited the restriction of voting rights on account of race, color, or previous condition of service to the confederacy.

  • Amnesty Act of 1872

    The Amnesty Act of 1872 removed voting and office-holding restrictions on most former members of the Confederacy.