Civil War Reconstruction

By hbehling
  • 1865

    1865

    Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.
  • 1868

    1868

    President Andrew Johnson is impeached and almost removed from office.
  • 1869

    1869

    Indiana becomes the 14th state to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment.
  • 1870

    1870

    Hirem Revels becomes the first African-American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
  • 1877

    1877

    The compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction