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Reconstruction
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Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
-Wanted to be lenient on the defeated South
-Reconstitute the state governments
-Pardon all former Confederates except the highest leaders
-States must abolish slavery
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Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
A bill proposed by two radical republicans. This was an iron-clad version of Lincoln's Ten Percent Bill. Abraham vetoed this because he though it would be to hard to make happen. -
Lincoln Re-Elected
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Congress Creates Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South during the aftermath of the Civil War. -
Lee Surrenders At Appomattox Court House
The American Civil War comes to an end on April 9th, 1865. -
Lincoln Assassinated; Johnson Becomes President
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Mississippi Enacts First Black Code
The Black Codes segregated blacks from whites in education, marriage, family, voting, public accommodations, and transportation. They were also called the Jim Crow Laws. -
13th Amendment Approved And Ratified By Congress
Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude shall exsist. Congress has the power to enforce this law. -
Johnson Declares Reconstruction Complete
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Radical Republicans
The Radical Republicans were a wing of the Republican Party organized around an uncompromising opposition to slavery before and during the Civil War and a vigorous campaign to secure rights for freed slaves during Reconstruction. They want blacks to be treated fairly and for southern whites to be treated harshly. -
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
The First Reconstruction Act, also known as the Military Reconstruction Act, passed into law on March 2, 1867 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. It split the states into five military districts, each under the control of a Northern General whose responsibility it was to protect life and property. The First Reconstruction Act also demanded the need for new state delegates and constitutions, the ratification of the Fourteenth amendment, and the provisions of equal rights for each citizen. -
Johnson Impeached
Andrew Johnson was impeached because of the removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. -
14th Amendment Ratified
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. -
Ulysses S. Grant Elected
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General of the United States Army, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. -
Sharecropping
A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent. -
15th Amendment Ratified
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
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. -
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. -
Freedmen's Bureau Terminated
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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
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.
