emily hatchel

  • Wade Davis Bill

    Wade Davis Bill

    50% of a states white males must take an oath into the union
  • Freeman's bureau created

    Freeman's bureau created

    an agency of the united states department war
  • Lee surrenders to Grant

    Lee surrenders to Grant

    the final engagement of confederate states
  • Lincoln assassinated

    Lincoln assassinated

    Lincoln was fatally shot at Fords Theatre in Washington D.C by John Wilkes Booth.
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    bans slavery
  • KKK formed

    KKK formed

    Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War
  • Civil rights act of 1866

    Civil rights act of 1866

    all people born the united states are now declared citizens
  • Credit mobilier scandal

    Credit mobilier scandal

    involved the Union Pacific Rail Road and the Credit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
  • Military reconstruction act

    Military reconstruction act

    divided south into five military districts
  • Tenure of office act

    Tenure of office act

    Restricts presidents from removing certain office holders without approval of us senate
  • Johnson impeached

    Johnson impeached

    the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 in favor of a resolution to impeach the President for high crimes and misdemeanors.
  • 14th amendment

    citizenship
  • Ulysses S. Grant elected

    Ulysses S. Grant elected

    the first election of the Reconstruction Era
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    vote for all male citizens
  • Compromise of 1877

    Compromise of 1877

    informal unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876