Misbah Mamoon & Talia Wiskind 1861 ­ 1877 Review Sheet Year Political Soc Eco 1860 ­ Election of 1860:showed how divided the country was: Lincoln: North vs. Stephen Douglas: South ­ Dec: Critten Compromise: Would have protected slavery, failed ­ South Carolina threatens secession from Union 1861 ­ Meetings of Confederate Congress (convention of seceded states) ­ Confederate States of America Formed(President Jefferson Davis) ­ Lincoln Elected President of Union ­ Fort Sumner ­ Start of Insurrection to stop rebels 1863 ­ 10% Plan Proposed: Lincoln’s plan to readmit South if 10% agreed to re­enter Union (was NOT passed) ­ Emancipation Proclamation: Declared that all persons held within rebellious states are free (During 3rd year of Civil War) 1864 ­ Wade­Davis Bill: required that 50% of a state’s white males must take a loyalty oath to become readmitted into the Union. States were required to give blacks the right to vote 1865 ­
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End of Civil War 13th Amendment passed:no slavery or involuntary servitude Lincoln assassinated Freedman’s Bureau Established Amnesty Proclamation Dec: 13th Amendment Ratified 1866 ­ Civil Rights act of 1866: Citizenship and equal rights that white men had is granted to ALL male persons. 1867 ­ Reconstruction Acts of 1867: divided South into 5 military districts, readmission of several states into Union 1868 ­ President Johnson impeached ­ 14th Amendment ratified ­ Ulysses S. Grant elected as president 1870 ­ 15th Amendment ratified; suffrage for all men regardless of color ­ Amnesty Act of 1872:​
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Removed restrictions on voting and officeholding 1873 ­ Panic of 1873: economic problems and national depression 1875 ­ Mississippi Plan: plan of Democratic party to use radical political violence to halter Republican motives and voters 1877 ­ Compromise of 1877:Democratic leaders accepted Hayes’s election in exchange for Republican promises to withdraw federal troops from the South, provide federal funding for internal improvements in the South, and name a prominent southerner to the president’s Cabinet. ­ True end of Reconstruction 1872 disqualification that had been applied against secessionists who rebelled in Civil war (except for some Confederates)