reconstruction timeline maddie

By maddielaine1

  • Lincoln announces 10% plan

    A state could be readmitted if 10% of its voters took an oath of loyalty to the union
  • Period: to

    reconstruction

  • Lincoln re-elected

  • Lincoln vetos wade-davis bill

    this bill required states to accept the end of slavery and granted black men the right to vote lincoln thought that was to harsh

  • 13th amendment ratified

    the 13th amendment meant that black people could no longer be owned as property

  • Lee surrenders at appomattox court house - civil war ends

  • congress creates freedmans bureau

    they aided the freedman in transition from slavery for 1 year

  • Licoln assassinated Johnson becomes president

  • Mississippi enacts first black code

    laws that kept black me from being equal

  • johnson declares reconstruction over

  • radical republicans

    they wanted drastic changes and were willing to use violence to get their way, reconstruction needed to happen over a long period of time which made them a danger to reconstruction

  • 1st 2nd and 3rd reconstruction acts

    The first reconstruction act divided the south into 5 military zones with army commanders in charge of one

  • Johnson Impeached

    Johnson fired Edwin M Stanton and congress did not approve of this ,

  • 14th amendment ratified

    the 14th amendment adresses equal rights for freedmen after the civil war

  • Ulysses S Grant elected

    He served after jhonson so he had to deal with corruption in the government. he was very contreversial

  • sharecropping

    sharecropping is when a farmer rents a peice of land from someone and gives that person a precentage of the funds from the crop

  • 15th amedment ratified

    the 15th amendment gave african americans the right to vote

  • enforcment acts

    they were 3 bills passed by congress. they protected african americans rights

  • freedmans bureau terminated

  • amnesty act of 1872

    it took away all voting restrictions and allowed for most people to be allowed to run for office

  • Lame-duck congress passes civil rights act

  • disputed election

  • hayes president , reconstruction ends

  • compromise of 1877

    this was an unformal agreement to pull troops out of the south