Aidan's Reconstruction Timeline

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    Reconstruction

  • Lincon announces Ten Percent Plan

    Lincon announces Ten Percent Plan
    A state could be readmitted if 10 percent of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the Union and agreed to the end of slavery.
  • Lincons re-election

    Lincons re-election
    Lincon was re-elected in the reconstruction period
  • Lincon vetoes Wade-Davis Bill

    Lincon vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
    lincon wanted the southern states to join the union
  • 13 Ammendment approved and ratified by Congress

    It provids freedom for blacks
  • Congress creates Freedmens bureau

    to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War
  • Lee Surenders at Appomattox Court House civil war ends

  • lincon assasinated johnson becomes president

    lincon was killed after the war
  • first black codes

    important because they made blacks not able to purchase land.
  • johnson declares reconstruction complete

  • radical republicans

    They did not like slavery and campained to secure rights for blacks
  • 1st 2nd 3rd reconstruction acts

  • sharecropping

    when you rent out your land or house to someone else
  • 15th amendment ratifyed

    prohibits black voting rites
  • Freedmen’s Bureau terminated Amnesty Act of 1872

  • Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act

  • Disputed election

  • Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends Compromise of 1877

  • enforcement acts

    were three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.