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Lincoln sets forth 10 percent Reconstruction plan
The ten percent plan provided that once 10 percent or more of the voting poputlation of any occupied state had taken the oath, they were authorized to set up a loyal government.
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Wade - Davis Bill passes Congress but s pocket - vetoed by Lincoln
After refusing to recognize Lincoln's 10 percent governments, Congress passed a Reconstruction bill of its own. The Wade - Davis Bill required that 50 percent of the voters take an oath of future loyalty before the restoration process could begin.
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Johnson moves to reconstruct the Sout on his own initiative
Johnson placed North Carolina and eentually other states under appointed provisional governors chosen mostly from among prominent outhern politicians who had opposed the secession movement and had rendered no conspicuous service to the Confederacy.
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Johnson's plan fails
Congress refuses to seat representatives and senators elected from states reestablished under presidential plan.
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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 tow - thirds majority necessary to override his veto, signifying that the president was now hopelessly at odds with most of the congessmen from what was supposed to be his own party.
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Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment
This gave the federal government responsibility for guaranteeing equal rights unde the law to all Americans.
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Republicans increase their congressional majority in the fall elections
The Republican majourity in Congress 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.
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First Reconstruction Act is passed over Johnson's veto
This act was to place the South under the rule of the army by reorganizing the region into five military districts.
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Grant wins presidential election, defeating Horatio Seymour
Grant won with 3,12,833 popular votes and 214 electoral votes.
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Johnson is impeached; he avoids conviction by one vote
Andrew Johnson's successful defense against conviction in his impeachment case centered on his invocation of the Constitution to defend his presidential rights and powers.
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Southern blacks vote and serve in constitutional conventions
Only in South Carolina did blacks constitute a majority of even one house of the state legislature.
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Congress passes 15th Amendment
This amendment granted African Americans the right to vote.
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Congress passes Ku Klux Klan Act
This act was made to protect black voting rights in the South.
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Grant re - elected, defeating Horace Greeley
Grant won with 3,597,132 popular votes 286 electorial votes.
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Financial panic plunges nation into depression
The Panic of 1873 was the start of the Long Depression, a severe nationwide economic depression in the United States that lasted until 1879.
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Conress passes Specie Resumption Act
The Specie Payment Resumption Act provided for the redemption of United States paper currency, known colloquially as greenbacks, in gold.
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Whiskey Ring scandal exposed
The Whiskey Ring was a scandal, exposed in 1875, involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors. The Whiskey Ring began in St. Louis but was also organized in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Peoria.
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Disputed presidential election resolved in favor of Republican Hayes over Democrat Tilden
To ensure Hayes's election, REpublican leaders negotiated secretly with conservative southern Democrats, some of whom seemed willing to abandon the filibuster if the last troops were withdrawn and home rule restored to the South.
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Compromise of 1877
This ends military intervention in the South and causes fall of the lst Radical government.
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