Shail's Reconstruction Timeline

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    Reconstruction

  • Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan

    Lincoln announces Ten Percent Plan
    The Ten Percent Plan is where if 10% of a state's voters swore loyalty to the union and finally end slavery.
  • Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill

    Lincoln vetoes Wade-Davis Bill
    The Wade-Davis Bill was a bill which required to accept the end of slavery and the freedmen have the right to vote. More than half of a state's voters needed to sign a loyalty oath before it can be admitted again.
  • Lincoln re-elected

    Lincoln re-elected
  • Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau

    Congress creates Freedmen's Bureau
    The Freedmen's Bureau was made to help African-Americans and poor white people after the Civil War.
  • Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court-House- - Civil War ends

    Lee Surrenders at Appomattox Court-House- - Civil War ends
  • Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president

    Lincoln assassinated; Johnson becomes president
  • 13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress.

    13th Amendment approved and ratified by Congress.
    Slaver or anything similar is abolished, except as punishment for crime.
  • Mississippi enacts first Black Codes

    Mississippi enacts first Black Codes
    Black Codes are rules that restrict black people from political and some civil rights.
  • Johnson declares reconstruction complete

    Johnson declares reconstruction complete
  • Radical Republicans

    Radical Republicans
    Radical Republicans constructively reconstruct the south after the civil war. They enrage the south.
  • 1st, 2st, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts

    1st, 2st, and 3rd Reconstruction Acts
    The 1st Reconstruction Act is to divide the south into five military districts.
  • Johnson impeached

    Johnson impeached
    Andrew Johnson was impeached because he fired a disloyal member of his cabinet. The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson
  • Ulysses S. Grant elected

    Ulysses S. Grant elected
    Ulysses S. Grant was the general of the Union Army. He then became the 18th President.uly
  • 14th Amendment Ratified

    14th Amendment Ratified
    It granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
  • Sharecropping

    Sharecropping
    Sharecropping is when 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

    15th Amendment
    It had given African-American the right to vote.
  • 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 and give equal protection of laws
  • Amnesty Act of 1872

    Amnesty Act of 1872
    It removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the civil war.
  • Freedmen's Bureau terminated

    Freedmen's Bureau terminated
  • Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act

    Lame-duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
  • Disputed Election

    Disputed Election
  • Hayes declared president; Reconstruction end

    Hayes declared president; Reconstruction end
  • Compromise of 1877

    Compromise of 1877
    It had gotten rid of federal troops out of state politics, and it had ended the reconstruction/