| A | B |
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| Differing views of how to readmit the seceded states | Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction |
| Lincoln's (and later Johnson's) lenient Reconstruction policy | The Ten Percent Plan of requiring ten percent of a state's voters to take an oath of loyalty |
| Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth just a few days after Appomattox | Andrew Johnson is the one who has to deal with Reconstruction and battle the Radical Republicans |
| The Wade-Davis Bill is passed by Radical Republicans in 1864 | Pocket-vetoed by Lincoln |
| The Radical Republicans wanting to punish the white South, enfranchise free blacks, and create a Republican base in the South | Military Reconstruction and the Reconstruction Amendments |
| Slavers receiving no land from their masters of the government | Free blacks quickly ended up working for white landowners as sharecroppers or tenant farmers |
| Free blacks in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War | Migrations throughout the South looking for relatives, moving out of the slave quarters, and establish their own churches |
| Establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau | Schools were built into eh South and other services were provided by the federal government for free blacks |
| White Southerners needing a reliable workforce and to reaffirm authority blacks after slavery | Passage of the Black Codes and emergence of the Ku Klux Klan |
| Military Reconstruction Acts | The South is divided into military districts and occupied by federal troops until 1876 |
| Andrew Johnson's violation of the Tenure of Office Act by removing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton | The Radical Republicans impeached Andrew Johnson |
| The failure to convict Andrew Johnson by one vote | A nasty precedent of removing a president for political reasons was avoided but Johnson was effectively a lame duck for the rest of his term |
| The Thirteenth Amendment | The Emancipation Proclamation was superseded and slavery was abolished throughout the United States |
| The Fourteenth Amendment | Was undercut by the Supreme Court and laxly enforced |
| The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment | Angered women suffragists because they were not granted suffrage until 1920 |
| Disputed election results in three Southern stats (Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina) in the Election of 1876 | The deadlock is broken by the Compromise of 1877 |
| Compromise of 1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes wins the presidency but the Republicans agree to end up Reconstruction |
| Sharecropping and the crop-lien system | Created a cycle of indebtedness and dependents for poor whites and blacks in rural areas |
| The South continued to rely on cotton and agriculture | The New South proposed by Henry Grady fails to materialize and the South's economy is very much like a colonial economy |
| The South's realization Reconstruction has really ended and the North no longer cares about African-Americans in the late 1880s and 1890s | The passage of Jim Crow laws, the disenfranchisement of African-Americans, and increased number of lynchngs |
| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | The federal government basically sanctions Jim Crow laws because "separate but equal" is constitutional |
| Poll taxes, literacy tests, understanding clauses, grandfather clause, gerrymandering, white primaries, and violence/intimidation | The number of registered black voters dramatically decreases around the turn of the century |
