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Lincoln Announces Ten Percent Plan
Lincoln planned to do reconstruction before the civil war had even began. The "Ten Percent Plan" is when a state can be readmission if ten percent of it's voters swore a loyalty oath to the union and agreed to the end of slavery. Unable to add a picture. -
Lincoln Vetos Wade-Davis Bill (this is part of Radical Reconstruction)
The Wade-Davis Bill requires 50% of state male voters to take an "ironclad" oath that they never voluntarily supported the confederacy. Unable to add a picture. -
Lincoln Re-elected
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Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau is an agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves in obtaining relief, land, jobs, fair treatment, and education. Unable to add a picture, I am unable to upload pictures. -
Lee surenders at Appomattox Court House - Civil War ends
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Lincoln assasinated; Johnson becomes president
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Johnson declares that the reconstruction is complete
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Mississippi enacts first Black Code
Black Codes are any code of law that denied and especially limited the rights former slaves after the Civil War. Unable to add a picture. Unable to add a picture, -
13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
The 13th amendment is an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery. Unable to add a picture, -
Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans were a wing of the Republican Party organized around an uncompromising opposition to slavery before and during the Civil War and a vigorous compaign to secure rights for freed slaves during the reconstruction. Unable to add an image. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The first reconstuction act applied to all the ex-Confederate states in the South, except Tennessee who had already ratified the 14th amendment. Unable to add an image. -
Johnson impeached
Andrew Johnson was impeached because of violating the Tenure of Office Act. This all happend when he fired Stanton because he wanted to stop Military Reconstruction. Johnson was impeached by the house of represenatives in the years of 1867-1868. Unable to add an image, -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
In my opinion Grant was not a good president but he had good enventions. He would follow a more moderated path for the reconstruction. He also called for the withhdrawl of union troops from the South. And later on that year the Freedmen's Bureau was shut down. Unable to add an image. -
14th Amendment raified
The 14th Amendment is national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons. unable to add an image. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tentant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of the land. Unable to add an image. -
15th Amendment ratified
The 15th Amendment is when the U.S. Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen a right to vote based on that citizen's race or color. Unable to add an image. -
Enforcement Acts
Enforcement Acts are 3 bills passed by the U.S. Congress, They were criminal codes which protected African Americans right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and recieve equal protections of law. Unable to add an image. -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
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Amnesty Act of 1872
The Amnesty Act of 1872 is a United States states federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of the Confederacy. Unable to add an image. -
Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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Disputed election
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Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 was a unwritten deal that settled the intencely disputed 1876 U.S. presidentail election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconsruction Era. Unable to upload an image. Unable to add an image. -
Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends
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