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America's Reconstruction

By felicia.hurtado.113
  • Emancipation Proclamation issued

    Emancipation Proclamation issued

    Issued on January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation changed the character of the Civil War by making the end of slavery a affect of the Union war.
    It also allowed the enlistment of African Americans in the Union armed forces. It put slavery on the road to complete abolition, it made a postwar reconstruction of southern society inevitable.
  • Lincoln reelected President

    Lincoln reelected President

  • The Freedmen's Bureau established

    The Freedmen's Bureau established

    Helps emancipated African Americans. Abolished in 1872.
  • President Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

    President Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

    Lincoln is murdered. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President.
  • 13th Amendment passed

    13th Amendment passed

    Abolishes slavery in the United States
  • Black "codes" are passed

    Black "codes" are passed

    Southern states pass laws restricting rights of African Americans.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Guarantees the rights of African Americans
  • Memphis Race Riot

    Memphis Race Riot

    Memphis Race Riot began on May 1, 1866 and ended on May 3,1866. During those three days white civilians and police kill 46 African Americans, destroy 90 houses, schools, and four churches.
  • New Orleans Race Riot

    New Orleans Race Riot

    On this day police alone killed more than 40 black and white Republicans and wound more than 150.
  • Reconstruction Acts

    Reconstruction Acts

    Voting takes place in which African American men are allowed to vote
  • Fourteenth Amendment passed

    Fourteenth Amendment passed

    The 14th amendment guaranteed the right to due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans.
  • Ulysses S. Grant elected President

    Ulysses S. Grant elected President

    The former Union general becomes the 18th president.
  • First black senator elected

    First black senator elected

    Hiram Revels of Mississippi elected to U. S. Senate as the first black senator in U.S. history
  • Fifteenth amendment passed

    Fifteenth amendment passed

    All male citizens of the United States have the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  • First African American governor.

    First African American governor.

    P. B. S. Pinchback, governor of Louisiana from December 9, 1872 to January 13, 1873. Pinchback, a black politician, was the first black to serve as a state governor, because of white resistance, his time as governor was extremely short.
  • Democrats control the Forty-third Congress

    Democrats control the Forty-third Congress

    For the first time since before the Civil War, Democrats gained control of both houses of Congress. Robert Smalls, black hero of the Civil War, elected to Congress as representative of South Carolina. Blanche K. Bruce elected to U. S. Senate.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1875 passed by Congress

    Civil Rights Act of 1875 passed by Congress

    Guarantees equal rights to African Americans in public accomodations and jury service. Ruled unconstitutional in 1883.
  • Wade Hampton inaugurated as governor of South Carolina

    Wade Hampton inaugurated as governor of South Carolina

    The election of Hampton, a leader in the Confederacy, made the fears that the South is not committed to Reconstruction clear.
  • Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as President

    Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as President

    Electoral Commissoin awards disputed electoral votes to the republican candidate.
  • Reconstruction Ends

    Reconstruction Ends

    President Rutherford Hayes withdraws federal troops from the South protecting the Civil Rights of African Americans.