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Reconstuction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
A southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of it's voters swore to stay with the Union. -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
Abolished slavery and prohibited confederate officials and veterans from voting -
Lincoln re-elected
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Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
A bureau that provided food, housing, and medical aid for former black slaves and poor whites in the south. -
Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House
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Mississippi enacts first Black Code
To make african americans feel like slaves. -
Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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Johnson declares reconstruction complete
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13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
Slavery and involuntary servitude shall not be convicted unless as a punishment for a crime. -
Radical Republicans
Radical republicans are a faction of polititions withing the republica party their goals were to punish the south for causing the war and not giving the slaves freedom. -
1st, 2nd, and 3td Reconstruction Acts
The first Reconstruction Act divided the south (except Tennessee) into 5 military districts. -
Johnson impeached
He was impeached because of a political conflict from the aftermath of the Civil War. -
14th amendment ratified
Citizenship is granted to anyone who is born in the U.S. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
He was a brave person before presidency and is a very well known hero and is working to improve congressional reconstruction and remove all traces of slavery. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a land owner allows a tentant to use to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of the land. -
15th amendment ratified
This granted african americans the right to vote. -
Enforcement Acts
They were criminal codes which protected african americans right to vote, hold office, serve on juries, and recieve equal protection laws. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
A federal law that removed voting restrictions and office holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War. -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
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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
This compromise pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South and ended Reconstruction
