Taylor's Reconstruction Timeline

Reconstruction

Period: Jan 1, 1863 to Apr 1, 1877

Lincoln Announces Ten Percent Plan

Apr 11, 1863

A state could be readmitted into the Union if 10% of its voters swore loyalty oath to the Union and agreed to end slavery .

Lincoln Re-Elected

Jan 11, 1864

Lincoln Vetoes Wade-Davis Bill

Apr 11, 1864

Radical Republicans preposed a bill the required states to accept the end of slavery to grant all African-American men the right to vote.

13th Amendment Approved and Ratified by Congress

Jan 11, 1865

Meant that people were could no longer be enslaved and could no longer be owned as property.

Congress creates Freedmens Bureau

Feb 11, 1865

U.S. Federal government agency established to aid freedmen.

Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House - Civil War ends

Apr 11, 1865

Lincoln Assassinated; Johnson becomes President

May 12, 1865

Mississsippi Enacts First Black Codes

Jun 12, 1865

Laws that made African Americans second-class citizens. THey denied African Americans the right to vote, required segregation in public places, denied blacks the right to serve on juries, imposed severe punishment for black crminals than for white ones.

Johnson Declares Reconstruction Complete

Nov 12, 1865

Radical Republicans

Jan 12, 1866

They believed that blacks should have the same politcal rights as whites. They also believed that confederate leaders should be punished for their roles in the civil war.

1st 2nd 3rd Reconstruction Acts

Jun 18, 1867

THe 1st reconsruction act turned the southern states into 5 military districts governed by a Union general and disbatched union troops to protect the rights of former slaves and keep peace.

Johnson Impeached

Apr 6, 1868

Johnson was impeached because he fired a member of his cabinet.

14th Amendment ratified

Jul 21, 1868

Grants citizenship to all people born in the United States.

Ulysses S. Grant Elected

Nov 21, 1868

He stabilozed the nation during reconstruction. He prosecuted the KKK and enforced civil and voting rights laws using the Army.

Sharecropping

Jun 21, 1869

A system where the landlord/planter allows a tentant to use the land in return for a share of crops produced on thier own portion of land.

15th Amendent Ratified

Apr 21, 1870

Gave African American men the right to vote. Said the voting right of citiznes shall not be denied or taken away regardless of race, color, or previos condiion of servitude.

Enforcement Acts

Jun 21, 1871

Also known as the civil rights acts or first KKK act these bills were passed to protect the right of african americans right to vote, hold office, serve on a jury, and recieve equal protection of laws. The main goal was to improve condititons for blacks and freed slaves, fighting against the KKK.

Freedmens Bureau Terminated

Apr 21, 1872

Amnesty Act of 1872

Nov 21, 1872

Law that removed voting restrictions and offics holding diqualificatoions against most of the seseccionist who rebelled in the American Civil War (except for about 500 Confederacy military leaders).

Lame-Duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act

Jun 21, 1875

Disputed Election

Apr 21, 1876

Compromise of 1877

Apr 21, 1877

Pulled federal troops out of the southern states politics. The south became democratic again and reconstruction was over. It was an unwritten deal.

Hayes Declared President; Reconstruction ends

Apr 21, 1877