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Lincoln sets forth 10 percent Reconstruction plan
Lincoln decides that the south should be alowed back into the union. He states that once 10% of the southern voters take an oath to the United States that state will be alowed to set up a local goverment.
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Wade-Davis bill passes congress but is pocket-vetoed by lincoln
The Wade-Davis bill was a bill that said all white southern males had to take an oath guarentee African Americans equality in order to be alowed back into the union
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Johnson moves to reconstruct the South on his own initiative
After Lincoln's assasination Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's Vice President, becomes President. Johnson had three main goals for his presidency were to declare the ordinace of secession illegal, repudiate the Confederate debt, and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery. congress disagreed with his ideas and took over in the reconstruction.
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Congress refuses to seat representatives and senators elected from states reestablished under presidential plan
due to the disagreement on the path that reconstruction should take, Congress refused to seat certain senators and representatives.
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Johnson vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Bill
the Freedmen's bureau was a proposed "slave help" agency that was suposed to assist the newly freed slaves in starting there new lifes. However Johnson vetoes this bill before it can be put into effect.
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Johnson vetoes Civil Rights Act; it passes over his veto
The proposed Civil Rights Act was ment to give equality to the free African Americans. Johnson vetoes this but it passes in congress with a two thirds vote.
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Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment
Made the federal goverment give equal rights and citizenship to any person born in the United States
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Republicans increase their congressional majority in the fall elections
Due to Johnsons unpopularity in the way he was handleing the reconstruction, a two thirds majority of republicans was voted into congress.
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First Reconstruction Act is passed over Johnson's veto
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divide the south into five seperate military districts.
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Johnson is impeached; he avoids conviction by one veto
After Johnsons apointment of General Lorenzo Thomas with out senatorial permishion he was impeached. He escaped impeachment by one vote.
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Grant wins presidential election, defeating Horatio Seymour
Ulysses S. Grant, the famous general of the Union army, wins the election of 1868 with a large majority of electoral votes.
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Congress passes Fifteenth Amendment, granting African Americans the right to vote
The fifteenth amendment granted all male U,S, citizens the right to vote, regardless of race.
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Congress passes Ku Klux Klan Acts to protect black voting rights in the South
The Ku Klux Klan Acts made it illigal to prevent or interfer with anyones voteing rights. This law was put into place due to the large increase in violince and intemidation from groups like the KKK and the White League.
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Grant re-elected president, defeating Horace Greeley, candidate of Liberal Republicans and Democrats
Grant is re-elected, after defeating the middle of the road candidate Horace Greeley, who was attempting to be appeling to everyone but won over no one.
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Financial panic plunges nation into depression
Grant allowed paper money to circulate untill the economy could back them with gold, however due to the need to rapidly inflate the greenback the country hit finacial crisis.
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"Whiskey Ring" scandal exposed
The Whisky Ring was a group of federal revinue agents and distillers who worked together to steal millions from the exess liquor taxes. Grant probly did not know about this, however when the senate tried to punish those involved Grant steped in to stop them.
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Congress passes Specie Resumption Act
The Specie Resumption Act reduced the amount of papper money circulating and increased the amount of gold circulating.
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Disputed presidental election resolved in favor of Republican Hayes over Democrat Tilden
the election of Hayes and Tilden was thrown into termoil due to the inability for three southern republican states to count there vote, this left the decision up to congress, Hayes won the election only because the congress and senate made a deal to pull troops from the south.
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Compromise of 1877 ends military intervention in the South and causes fall of the last Radical governments
The Compromise of 1877 was a follow through of the deals made to make Hayes presedent. The compromise revoved all federal troops from the south and turned the southern goverment back over to the south.
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