HY 104 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Reconstruction Era, United States Congress, Radical Republican
20 Nov 2018
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1863 - lincoln issues proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction. 1864 - congress passes wade-davis bill; lincoln pocket-vetoes it. 1865 - lee surrenders to grant at appomattox courthouse congress creates. Freedmen"s bureau lincoln is assassinated; johnson becomes president. Abraham lincoln - 16th u. s. president; proposed ten-percent plan for. Reconstruction in 1863; assassinated by john wilkes booth in 1865. Andrew johnson - 17th u. s. president; was vice president in lincoln"s second term and became president upon lincoln"s assassination. After major union victories at the battles of gettysburg and vicksburg in 1863, President abraham lincoln began preparing his plan for reconstruction to reunify the north and south after the war"s end. Because lincoln believed that the south had never legally seceded from the union, his plan for. He thus issued the proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction in 1863 to announce his intention to reunite the once-united states.
