Road to reconstruction

By cadoretn19
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    black codes

    Jim crow laws

  • Ten percent plan

    Lincoln's approach on reconsturction
    only ten percent of south had to agree to constitution

  • Wade davis bill

  • 13th amendment

    bannedslavery in all states

  • lincoln assassination

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    freedmen bureau

    helped freed African Americans

  • elections of 1866

    Andrew Johnson wins
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    Radical republicans

    wanted to be harsh on south but good to AA

  • 14th amendment

    granted all rights to all citizens of the states

  • attempt impeachment of Johnson

    Wanted to get rid of Johnson as he did not enforce laws

  • new president

    ulysses s grant becomes president and takes it like military
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    Voting restrictions

    South did every thing to keep blacks form voting
    grandfather clauses
    voting taxes
    literacy test

  • 15th amendment

    can't discriminate against any citizen by race or color

  • KKK

    first terrorist group
    goal was to keep white republicans out of office and blacks form voting

  • Amnesty act

    all white southerners can vote

  • election of 1876

    Rutherford be Hayes wins elections
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    end of reconstruction

    hayes ends it by taking troops at

  • plessy v Ferguson

    Case to fight against voting restrictions ]
    result said segregations was legal