history final

Emancipation Proclamation issued.

Jan 1, 1863

Freed slaves in states in rebellion also authorized the enlistment of black troops.

The Ten-Percent Plan

Dec 8, 1863

Abraham Lincoln reveals the Ten Percent Plan -Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

The Republican Congress passes a Reconstruction plan

1864

The Wade–Davis Bill

Lincoln's Assassination

Apr 14, 1865

John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln, congress establishes Freedmen's Bureau; 13th Amendment ratified.

Tenure of Office Act

1867

protects civil officers from removal from office without senatorial approval

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Mar 2, 1867

Defined terms for repatriation to portray rebel states.

House impeaches Johnson

1868

For a violation of the Tenure of Office Act- didn't convict

14th Amendment

Jul 9, 1868

Allowed citizenship to all - born here or naturalized

15th Amendment

Apr 3, 1870

15th amendment ratified

Hiram Revels Elected as First Black U.S. Senator

Apr 23, 1870

A African Methodist Episcopal Minister known as Hiram Revels became the first black senator.

The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871

Apr 20, 1871

The KKK and other supremacist groups were created to intimidate blacks and whites that supported blacks to help contain black economic and political rights.

The Freedmen's Bureau established

Mar 3, 1872

assistance to emancipated Africans Americans

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Mar 1, 1875

Assured African Americans were treated equally in public transportation, public accommodations, and jury service.

End of Reconstruction

1877

Troppos withdraw, end of Reconstruction

Rutherford B. Hayes and the Compromise of 1877

Apr 24, 1877

Hayes calls troops home from Louisiana and South Carolina.