Tyra's Timeline on the Reconstruction on the Civil War

  • Ten Percent Plan

    Ten Percent Plan

    when 10 percent of the voters of a state took an oath of loyalty to the Union.
  • Wade Davis Bill

    Wade Davis Bill

    to rejoin the union, a state had a meet several requirements.
  • Freedmens Bureau

    the bureau helped African Americans adjust,or adapt,to freedom.
  • Alaska purchased

    Alaska purchased

    Alaza purchased for reconsrction act past
  • literacy test

    literacy test

    they had to read and explain difficult parts of state constitutions or the federal Constitution.
  • Tenure of Office Act

    Tenure of Office Act

    It prohibited the president from removing government officials.
  • First Reconstruction Act

    First Reconstruction Act

    The First Reconstruction Act was passed in 1867 called for the creation of new government in the 10 southern states that had not reatified the Fourthteenth Amendment.
  • grandfather clauses

    grandfather clauses

    these laws allowed people who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers voted before reconstruction.
  • Second Reconstruction Act

    Second Reconstruction Act

    required the military commanders to register voters and prepare for state constitutional conventions.
  • Hiram Revels

    Hiram Revels

    one of the African Americans senator, also came from Mississippi.
  • Amnesty Act

    Amnesty Act

    which pardoned most former Confederates.
  • Compromise of 1877

    Compromise of 1877

    its was a agreement and it included some favoors to the South.
  • Jim Crow laws

    Jim Crow laws

    that requiring African Americans and whites to be separate in almost every public place.
  • hull house

    hull house has open in Chicago.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    The case involved a Louisiana law requiring separate sections on trains for African Americans.