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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A team can re-join the union if ten percent of the voters by stating the Pledge of Allegiance and agree to end slavery. -
Lincoln vetos Wade-Bill
Ending all slavery and gave all African American men the right to vote -
Lincoln re-elected
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by congress
Ending slavery and involuntary servitude -
Congress creates Freedman's Bureau
Helping enslaved people to become citizens. -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House -Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated ; Johnson becomes president
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Mississopi encts first Black Code
Restrictions on Africian Americans were not slaves anymore. -
Johnson declares the reconstruction complete
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Radical Republicans
Southerns and northerns who wanted to reconstruct the south. -
1st,2nd and 3rd reconstruction Acts
Divided the south into fove military districts each goverened by general of the union army and controlled by federal troops. -
Johnspon impeached
Tried to stop Military Reconstruction by firing Edwin M. Stanton -
14th Amendment Ratified
All persons born or naturalized in the united states. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
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Sharecropping
When a black person would pick cotton and get money for it. -
15th Amendment ratified
Letting a citizens vote with no if and, or buts -
15th Amendment ratified
Protected voting rights by prohibiting states from denying voting rights because of race. -
Enforcement Acts
They were criminal codes which protected African-Americans' right to vote,to hold office,to serve on juries and receive equal protection of laws. -
Freedman Bureau terminated
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Amnesty Acts of 1872
Removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most -
Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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Disputed election
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Hayes declared president; Reconstruction ends
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Compromise of 1877
To withdraw the federal troops from the south
