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1863 Ten Percent Plan
Southern state could form a new government after 10% of it's voters form an oath of loyalty to the United States. New government had to abolish slavery. Plan also offered government pardon to Confederates who swore loyalty to the Union. -
Wade-Davis Bill 1864
Republicans in Congress made a rival plan because they thought Lincoln's plan was too soft. Required a majority of white men in each southern state to swear loyalty to the Union. Anyone who volunteered to fight for the Confederacy was banned from voting or holding office. -
Freedmen's Bureau
Government created to help former slaves and poor whites. Helped them with health care, created schools, gave them clothes, and helped them get jobs. They had to stop it though, in , because they ran out of money. -
Lincoln Dies
He gets shot in a theatre by a famous southern actor named John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. He had previously planned to try and convince Congress to accept his Reconstruction Plan, but he died before he could. Nation grieving -
Johnson's Reconstruction Plan 1865
New President, Andrew Johnson, wanted a milder reconstruction plan. Called for a majority of voters in each southern state to pledge loyalty to the United States. They also had to to ratify the thirteenth amendment, which banned slavery throughout the nation. -
Angry Whites 1866
Angry whites burned homes, churches, and schoolhouses in a black section of Memphis, Tennessee. More than 40 African Americans were killed. Similar riots broke out in New Orleans. -
Civil Rights Act 1866
Gave citizenship to African Americans. Johnson vetoed it, but Congress overrode his veto for the first time in history. -
Election of 1866
Johnson urged Northerners to reject the radicals. Johnson made 14th amendment an issue in the congressional elections. -
Black Codes
Granted some rights like letting African Americans marry, and own some kinds of property. Forbad freedmen to vote own guns or serve on juries. In some states African Americans were only permitted to work as servants or farm laborers. -
Reconstruction Act 1867
Threw out the state governments the refused to ratify the 14th amendments. Divided the south into 5 military districts. Army commanders given broad power to enforce reconstruction. Former confederate states had to write a new constitution and ratify the 14th amendment to rejoin the union. -
14th Amendment 1868
The Radical Republicans created the 14th amendment to protect freemen. Defines citizens as all people born or naturalized in the United States. Had equal protection of the laws and forbade states to deprive any person of life, liberty, and property without due process of law. Any state that denied any male citizen 21 or older the right to vote, they would reduce the amount of representatives they had in the house. -
Impeachment 1868
House voted to impeach President Johnson. President is removed from office if found guilty by 2 thirds of the senate. He was not guilty of high crimes.