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Reconstruction
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Lincoln Announces 10% Plan
Lincoln announces the Ten Percent plan, where a state can be readmitted to the Union if 10% of its voters swore a loyalty oath to the union and agreed to the end of slavery. -
Lincoln Vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
The Wade-Davis Bill was a bill that required the states to accept the end of slavery and to give the right to vote to freedmen, as well as more than half of the states have to sign the loyaly oath. -
Abraham Lincoln Re-elected President of the United States
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Congress Approves and Ratifies the 13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment gave freedom to the slaves, abolished slavery. Congress approves the amendment on this day but is ratified 10 months later. -
General Robert E. Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court House, Ending the Civil War
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President Lincoln Assassinated, Andrew Johnson Takes Presidency
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Congress Creates Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau helped freed slaves and poor whites, giving them economic support to help them support themselves. Schools, hospitals, and other places were built as well. -
Mississippi Enacts first Black Code
The Black Code were laws that basically took away the rights that the freedmen were just given, making them 2nd-class citizens. Rights such as the right to vote were taken away, and things like intermarriage, whites marrying blacks, were not allowed. -
Andrew Johnson Declares Reconstruction Complete
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Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans are Republicans who want the rights of freedmen to be preserved. They support punishment for Confederates. They cause a slow down in the reconstruction. -
1st, 2nd, & 3rd Reconstruction Acts
Also know as the Military Reconstruction Act, the 1st Reconstruction Act divided the South into five military districs, each being governed by one Union General and enforced by troops. -
Andrew Johnson Impeached
President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he broke the Tenure of Office Act b firing Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war, as well as a Radical Republican. -
14th Amendment Ratified
The 14th Amendment granted African Americans the right to vote, as well as a full set of rights. -
Ulysses S. Grant Elected
Ulysses Grant was a former Union general from the Civil War. who had a better sense of the Reconstruction, following a more moderate path. He later withdrawled Union troops from the South. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a type of econimic system in which a landowner rents land to/for a farmer in exchange of some of the crops the farmer grows. The landowner also provides tools and the seeds to start farming. -
15th Amendment Ratified
The 15th Amendment granted all citizens the right to vote, and protected the citizens of that right by stating that no state shall deny that right because of color, race, or previous condition. -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts protected and gave equal rights to African Americans, such as the right to vote. -
Amnesty Act of 1872
The Amnesty Act allowed former Confederates to run for office. This act intimidated many Republicans and African Americans to vote. -
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 as President; Reconstruction Ends
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Compromise of 1877
The compromise was the agreement of Democrats to accept the ballots so that Hayes would win, in exchange for the Republicans to agree to withdraw federal troops from the South
