Rohith's Reconstruction Timeline

By RohithG
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    Reconstruction

  • Lincoln announces 10% plan

    Lincoln announces 10% plan

    10% of a state had to pledge loyalty to be readmitted to the union.
  • Lincoln vetoes the Wade-Davis bill

    Lincoln vetoes the Wade-Davis bill

    The Wade-Davis bill stated that 50% of a state had to pledge loyalty to the union and all the slaves had to be free to join the union.
  • Lincoln re-elected

    Lincoln re-elected

  • 13th Amendment is approved and ratified at Congress

    13th Amendment is approved and ratified at Congress

    The thirteenth amendment freed all slaves
  • Congress creates the freedmen's Bureau

    Congress creates the freedmen's Bureau

    The Bureau is a welfare agency to help freed slaves in the USA
  • Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president

    Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president

  • Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War Ends

    Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War Ends

  • Johnson declares reconstruction complete

    Johnson declares reconstruction complete

  • Mississipi enacts first Black Code

    Mississipi enacts first Black Code

    The Black codes are laws that made Blacks second class citezins to whites. The laws included no marriage between Black and White, No Blacks on juries, No voting rights, and more severe punishments for them.
  • Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans want Black equality with whites.
  • 1st, 2nd, and 3rd reconstruction acts

    1st, 2nd, and 3rd reconstruction acts

    the first act divided the south into 5 military districts
  • Johnson Impeached

    Johnson Impeached

    Johnson was impeached because he broke the Office Tenure act
  • 14th amendment ratified

    14th amendment ratified

    Everyone born in the United States would become a citizen
  • ulysses s grant elected

    ulysses s grant elected

    Ulyses s grant was a moderate republican who drew troops out of the south
  • Sharecropping

    Sharecropping

    The landowner buys a share from the farmer who sells the crop and pays back his debt to the landowner.
  • 15th Amendment ratified

    15th Amendment ratified

    It gave African Americans the right to vote
  • Enforcement Acts

    Enforcement Acts

    They protected african americans the right to vote
  • Amnesty Act of 1872

    Amnesty Act of 1872

    This act let former confederates run for office.
  • Freedmen's Bureau terminated

    Freedmen's Bureau terminated

  • Lame-Duck Congress passes civil rights act

    Lame-Duck Congress passes civil rights act

  • Disputed Election

    Disputed Election

  • Hayes declared president; reconstruction ends

    Hayes declared president; reconstruction ends

  • Compromise of 1877

    Compromise of 1877

    This compromise let the army out of the south if Hayes became president