Samantha's Reconstruction Timeline

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    Reconstrucrion

  • Lincoln Announces 10% Plan

    Lincoln Announces 10% Plan

    Lincoln's 10% plan said that a state could be readmitted to the union if 10% of it's voters swore loyalty to the union and agreed to end slavery.
  • Lincoln is re-elected

    Lincoln is re-elected

  • Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill

    Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill

    The Wade-Davis Bill required states to accept the end of slavey and grant Afircan Americans the right right to vote.
  • Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau

    Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau

    The Freedmen's Bureau was a welfare agency that helped enslaved people become citizens and gove other services such as provide food.
  • Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War Ends

    Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House- Civil War Ends

  • Lincoln Assassanated: Johnson becomes president

    Lincoln Assassanated: Johnson becomes president

  • Mississippi enacts first Black Code

    Mississippi enacts first Black Code

    The Black Codes were laws that resrticted Afican Americans from voting and made them second class citizens.
  • Johnson declares reconstruction complete

    Johnson declares reconstruction complete

  • Johnson Declares Reconstuction Complete

    Johnson Declares Reconstuction Complete

  • 13th Amendment approved and rattified by Congress

    The 13th Amendment freed Afircan Americans that were no longer slaves and they cannot sold or be seperated from their family.
  • Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans insisted that the federal govt. should protect the rights of freed slaves. Favored harsh tratment on fromer confederates.
  • 1st, 2nd, 3rd Reconstruction

    1st, 2nd, 3rd Reconstruction

    The 1st reconstruction act divided the south into 5 sdistricts governed by the Union Federal Army troops.
  • Johnson is impeached

    Johnson is impeached

    Johnson was impeached because he violated the tenure of the office act
  • 14th Amendment rattified

    14th Amendment rattified

    The 14th Amendement granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
  • Ulysses S. Grant elected

    Ulysses S. Grant elected

    He followed more of a moderate path for reconstruction. He called for the removal of of federal troops in the south.
  • Sharecropping

    Sharecropping

    Sharecropping is a system to pay for the peole working on your land. They exchange land for food.
  • 15th Amendment rafified

    15th Amendment rafified

    The 15th Amendment allowed every man to vote no matter ehat race he was.
  • Enforcement acts

    Enforcement acts

    They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.
  • Freedmen's Bureau Terminated

    Freedmen's Bureau Terminated

  • Amnesty Act of 1872

    Amnesty Act of 1872

    The Amnesty Acts allowed former confederates to run for office except for the 500 military leaders.
  • 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

    During the Compromise of 1877 Hayes became president in exchamge of the republicans agreeing to remove federal troops from the southern states.

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