Nia´s Reconstruction Timeline

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    Nia´s Recounstruction Timeline

  • compromise of 1877

    compromise of 1877
    The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.
  • Lincoln Announces Ten Precent Plan

    Lincoln Announces Ten Precent Plan
    A state could be readmitted if 10% of it´s voters swore to a loyalty oath (pledge of allegiance) to the union and agreed to the end slavery. It was also known as Lincoln´s 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty.
  • Lincoln Vetoes Wade-Davis Bill

    Lincoln Vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
    Lincoln vetoes the Wade-Davis Bill because he felt as if it was too harsh. It was an alternative to Lincoln´s Ten Precent Plan
  • Lincoln Re-elected

    Lincoln Re-elected
    Lincoln won the re-election by a wide margin.
  • 13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress

    13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress
    The 13th amendment made it to where there were no more enslaved African Americans and that they could no longer be owned as property. They couldn´t be sold or seperated from their families.
  • Congress creates Freedmen´s Bureau

    Congress creates Freedmen´s Bureau
    Was established as a welfare agency to help formerly enslaved people become full citizens.
  • Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House - Civil War Ends

    Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House - Civil War Ends
    The Confederate Army Surrendered to The Union, leaving the Union with a major victory.
  • Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes prestident

    Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes prestident
    Lincoln was shot April 14, 1865 at Ford´s Theater when him and his wife Mary went to see a play. Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth who was one of the actors in the play they went to see. Andrew Johnson became the 17th president. Andrew Johnson was the Vice President of Lincoln.
  • Johnson declares Reconstruction complete

    Johnson declares Reconstruction complete
    President Johnson declares that the Recounstruction was complete
  • Mississippi enacts first Black Codes

    Mississippi  enacts first Black Codes
    These were laws that made African Americans second class citizens. They denied African Americans the rights they were granted. They had Vagrancy Laws in Mississippi which authorized police officers to arrest unemployed African American men and force them to work off their jail time by doing laborous work.
  • Radical Republicans

    They were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from 1854 until the end of the Reconstruction in 1877.
  • 1st, 2nd, 3rd Reconstruction acts

  • Johnson Impeached

    Johnson Impeached
    Johnson was Impeached for dismissing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. He was impeached by the House of Representatives by a vote of 126. He was charged with violation of the Tenure of Office Act.
  • 1st ,2nd, and 3rd reconstruction acts

    1st ,2nd, and 3rd reconstruction acts
    Congress enacted the reconstruction act, which supplemented later by three related acts, divided the south (except tennesee) into five military districts in which the authority of the army commander was supreme
  • Ulysses S. Grant elected

    Ulysses S. Grant elected
    He commanded the victourious Union Army during the American Civil War. He seemed bewildered. He provided neither vigor or reform.
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment
    The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
  • sharecropping

    sharecropping
    Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
  • 15th amendment ratified

    15th amendment ratified
    THe 15th amendement makes it so citizens can vote no matter what their race is.
  • enforcement acts

    enforcement acts
    The 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.
  • Freedmen´s Brueau Terminated

  • amnesty act of 1872

    amnesty act of 1872
    The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of the Confederacy.
  • Lame- Duck congress passes Civil Rights act

  • disputed election

    disputed election
  • hayes declared president; reconstruction ends

    hayes declared president; reconstruction ends