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Lincoln sets forth 10 percent Reconstruction plan
Ten Percent Plan</a>provided that once 10 percent or more of the voting population of any occupied state had taken the oath, they were authorized to set up a loyal government. http://www.oldstatehouse.com/exhibits/arkansas-politics/Interior/ots_section04d2_panel.jpg
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Wade-Davis Bill passes congress but is pocket-vetoed by lincoln
Lincoln exercised a pocket veto by refusing to sign the bill before congress adjourned. He justified his action by announcing that he did not want to be committed to any single Reconstruction plan. http://www.brodhead.k12.wi.us/High/departments/erics webs/USHistory/Civil War and Rec/Reconstruction/img003.gif -
Johnson moves to reconstruct the South on his own initiative
The reconstruction policy that Johnson initiated on May 29,1865, created some uneasiness among the radicals, but most Republicans were willing to give it a chance. http://www.pcs.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/andrew_johnson.jpg -
Congress refuses to seat representatives and senators elected from states reestablished under presedential plan
Instead of endorsing johnson's work and recongnizing the state governments he had called into being, Congress established a joint committee, chaired by senator William Pitt Fessenden of Maine, to review Reconstruction policy and set further conditions for readmission of the seceded states. http://law.jrank.org/article_images/gat_0000_0001_0_img0040.jpg -
Republicans increase their congressional majority in the fall elections
It increased to a solid two-thirds in both houses, and the Radical wing of the party gained strength at the expense of moderates and conservatives http://explorepahistory.com/images/ExplorePAHistory-a0l9i5-a_349.jpg -
Johnson vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Bill
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Johnson vetoes Civil Rights Act; it passes over his veto
The Civil Rights Act won the two-thirds majority necessary to override his veto, signifying that the president was now hopelessly at odds with most of the congressmen from what was sopposed to be his own party. Never before had congress overridden a presidential veto. http://www-tc.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web07/features/see_it_now/images/1860.0084.jpg -
Congress passed Fourteenth Amendment
It gave the federal government responsibility for guaranteeing equal rights under the law to all Americans http://www.laits.utexas.edu/txp_media/html/cons/features/0206_01/slide4.gif -
First Reconstruction Act is passed over Johnson's veto
It placed the South under the rule of the army by reorganizing the region into five military districts. http://www.jeffstarkbooks.com/files/reconstruction%20act.jpg -
Southern blacks vote and serve in constitutional conventions
As important as party politics to the changing political culture of the Reconstruction South were the ways that freed slaves claimed rights for themselves. http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/Freedmen_Voting__South_Carolina__1868.jpg -
Johnson is impeached; he avoids conviction by one vote.
Failure to remove Johnson from office was an embarrassment to congressional Republicans, but the episode did ensure that reconstruction in the South would proceed as the majority in cogress intended. http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/resources/graphic/xlarge/38_00447.jpg -
Grant wins presidential election, defeating Horatio Seymour
He had neither the vision nor the sense of duty to taclkle the difficult challenges the nation faced. http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00113/ulysses-s-grant_113897t.jpg -
Congress passes Fifteenth Amendment, granting African Americans the right to vote
It prohibited any state from denying a male citizen the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/txp_media/html/cons/features/0206_01/slide5.gif -
Congress passes Ku Klux Klan Acts to protect black voting rights in the South
made interference with voting rights a federal crime and established provisions for government supervisions of elections. http://www.freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/kkk_1925.jpg -
rant re-elected president, defeating Horace Greeley, candidate of Liberal Republicans and Democrats
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Financial panic plunges nation into depression
The Democratic party, responding to Midwestern pressure, included in its platform for the 1868 national election a plan calling for the redemption of much of the Civil War debt in greenbacks rather than gold. http://www.libertyforlife.com/images/us-depression-lange6a.jpg -
Congress passes Specie Resumption Act
Provided for a limited reduction of greenbacks leading to full resumption of specie payments by january 1, 1879. http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/csl0761l.jpg -
"Whiskey Ring" scandal exposed
In 1875, the public learned that federal revenue officials had conspired with distillers to defraud the government of millions of dollars in liquir http://www.harpweek.com/Images/SourceImages/CartoonOfTheDay/March/031876m.jpg -
Disputed presidential election resolved in favor of Republican Hayes over Democrat Tilden
To ensure Haye's election, Republican leaders negotiated secretly with conservative southern Democrats. http://z.about.com/d/americanhistory/1/0/n/9/19_rutherford_hayes.jpg -
Compromise of 1877 ends military intervention in the South and causes fall of the last Radical governments
Hayes would be president and southern blacks would be abandoned to their fate. In a sense, Hayes did not concede anything, because he had already decided to end federal support for the crumbling Radical regimes. http://history1301.net/4142902113.jpg
