Road to the End of Reconstruction

  • 10% Plan

  • Wade-Davis Bill

  • 13th Amendment

    4,000,000 freed slaves were now in the population. Many were illiterate.
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    Black Codes

    Black Codes were the south's way it keep whites superior.
  • Period: to

    Freedman's Bureau

  • Lincoln's Assassination

    Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by southern actor John Wilkes Booth.
  • Andrew Johnson is new president

  • KKK is formed

  • Rise of the Radicles

    Radicles now control the reconstruction.
  • Congress tried to impeach Andrew Jackson

  • 14th Amendment

    Protected African Americans' rights.
  • It was made illegal to use violence to discourage voters

  • 15th Amendment

    Allowed everyone to vote.
  • Reconstruction Act