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Lincoln announces Ten Precent Plan
This plan allowed a state to be readmitted if 10% of the voters agreed to end slavery and allowed african americans to be free while garanteeing loyalty oath to the union -
Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
This bill freed afircan americans, ended slavery, and granted black men the right to vote -
Lincoln re-elected
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Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
THe freedmen's Bureau is something that helped enslaved people become full citizens -
Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House - Civil War Ends
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LIncoln Assassinated; Johnson becomes president
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Mississippi Enacts first Black Code
The Black Codes are laws that took away freedom and rights from African Americans -
Johnson Declares Reconstruction Complete
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13th amendment approved and ratified by congress
African Americans were free. They no longer were known as property and they couldn't be sold or seperated from their family. -
Radical Republicans
Radicals Republicans were people that oppssed of Lincoln's plan of reconstruction. They were dangerous because the tried to replace Lincoln in the election of 1864. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The 1st reconstruction divided the south into five military districts that was controlled by federal troops. This act also ratified the fourteenth amendment. -
Johnson impeched
Johnson was impeached because he fired at Staton to replace him with someone who wouldn't enforce the law. -
14th Amendment Ratified
The 14th amendment took away legal concessions that had been made to slavery. It also erased the 3/5 compromise -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Ulysses grant was a good president he withdrawled union troops from the south and he shut down the Freedmen's Bureau. He took a more modern pass in reconstruction -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is when a landowner lets someone use there land in return for crops -
15th Amendment ratified
This amendement protected voting rights so that states were not allowed to deny the right to vote just because of race. -
Enforcement acts
This act were three bills that were considered criminal codes that protected african americans rights to vote and serve in the government -
Freedmen's Bureau terminated
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Amnesty Act of 1872
This act allowed confederates to run for public office. Intimidation and violence kept african americans and republicans away from polls -
Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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Hayes declared president; Reconsturction ends
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Disputed election
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Compromise of 1877
An agreement that democrats accepted the ballots that made Hayes win in exchange for the republicans to take the federal troops out of the south.
