Chapter 17 Timeline

  • President Lincoln attended a play and was killed

  • The Civil War ended!!!

  • Congress proposed the Thirteenth Amendment

  • Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau

  • All southern states except Texas had created new governments

  • Congress continued to debate the rules forrestoring the union

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

  • Ku Klux Klan was created

  • Reconstruction Acts were passed

  • Johnson did not run for another term

  • Revels for US Senate

  • Reconstruction, the process of readmitting the former Confederate States to the Union was occurring

  • Grant was re- elected

  • Compromise of 1877

  • Jim Crow Laws became popular