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President Lincoln's 10 percent plan - Dec. 8, 1863

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President Lincoln's 10 percent plan - Dec. 8, 1863

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This was Lincoln's plan to reconstruct the South after the war. This was a proclamation that stated that a state in rebellion against the US Federal government could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of the 1860 vote count had taken oath of allegiance to the US.

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The main purpose of this was to help the South become part of the Union. Federal troops occupied a lot of the Southern land to make sure the people followed laws and did not cause another uprising.

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President Lincoln gets Reelected - Nov 8, 1864

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President Lincoln gets Reelected - Nov 8, 1864

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President Lincoln was the first president to get reelected since Andrew Jackson in 1834. Him winning ensured that he would preside over the successful conclusion of the civil war.

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The Freedmen's Burea was Established - Mar 3, 1865

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The Freedmen's Burea was Established - Mar 3, 1865

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The freedmen's Bureau was known as the Bureau of refugees was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. The Freedmen’s Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance.

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Surrender from the Confederacy - Apr, 9 1865

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Surrender from the Confederacy - Apr, 9 1865

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General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate troops to the Union's Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, marking the beginning of the end of the grinding four-year-long American Civil War.

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President Lincoln is Assassinated - Apr 14, 1865

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President Lincoln is Assassinated - Apr 14, 1865

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Abraham Lincoln, the 16 president was assassinated by a well known stage actor on April 14th 1865. Lincoln was assassinated while watching the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford Theater in Washington D.C. Lincoln was shot in the head as he watched the play.

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The Black Codes, sometimes called Black Laws, were laws governing the conduct of African Americans. The best known of them were passed in 1865 and 1866 by Southern states, after the American Civil War, in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and to compel them to work for low wages

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The 13th amendment abolished slavery. Lincoln believed that a constitutional amendment was necessary to ensure the end of slavery.

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This group formed after the war. They were very racist and were formed to put down the newly freed slaves.

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The Civil Rights act of 1866 was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by law.

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U.S. legislation enacted in 1867–68 that outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War (1861–65). The bills were largely written by the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress.

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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.

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The 15th amendment granted voting rights to African American men, providing the most important key to participation in the American democratic process to millions of formerly enslaved, and politically excluded, people.

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Ulysses S. Grant Becomes President - Mar 4, 1869

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Ulysses S. Grant Becomes President - Mar 4, 1869

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Grant was inaugurated in 1869 to be the 18th president. He took office after the civil war and he presided over much of the reconstruction era.

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Civil Rights Act of 1875 Overturned. In 1883, The United States Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights act of 1875, forbidding discrimination in hotels, trains, and other public spaces, was unconstitutional and not authorized by the 13th or 14th Amendments of the Constitution.

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An election for US president between republican Rutherford B. Hayes and democrat Samuel J. Tilden. This election ended with the victory of republican Rutherford B. Hayes

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This cartoon represents the two sides of the decision of abolishing slavery. They are arguing about their sides of the argument and what they want