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Lincoln issues Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
He offered a pardon to all southerners who took a loyalty oath for the United States since he wanted to repair the Union. This bonds the Union. -
Wade-Davis Bill
A reconstruction plan both Moderates and Radicals could support, but still opposed to Lincoln's reconstruction plan. Lincoln pocket vetoed it. -
Lincoln Assassinated!
Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. -
Freedmen's Bureau founded
-It originaly started out as Sherman reserving an abandoned plantation for freed African Americans.
-After it was established, it was given the task of feeding and clothing war refugees in the south using surplus army supplies.
-It helped formerly enslaved people find work on plantations. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This act granted citizenship to all people born in the United States, but did not include Native Americans. -
Mob Attack on Delagates
An all white mob attacked delagates to a convention in New Orleans supporting African American voting rights. All this dispute made for an overwelming republican victory in the 1866 congressional elections. -
KKK Founded
The feared racist group of the Ku Klux Klan formed. They killed many innocent people. -
Fourteenth Admendment
This granted citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States and said that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property "without due process of law." It also said that everyone had to have "equal protection of the laws." -
Tenure of Office Act
The Tenure of Office Act required the Senate to give permission to the removal of any government official. -
Military Reconstruction Act
This act divided the former Confederacy (all except for Tennesssee because it has ratified the Fourteenth Admendment.) The Confederacy was divided into five "districts," or sections, with a Union General as the head of each. -
Command of the Army Act
It made it mandatory for all orders from the president to go through the headquarters of the general of the army. The general at that time was Grant. -
The Purchase of Alaska
At first, President Johnson's purchase was not popular among people of the U.S. Later, it was a tresured purchase as it contained oil and gold. -
Johnson Fired Stanton
Stanton did not take the dismissal well and locked himself in his office and refused to leave. In doing this, Johnson had not gone through proper protocall . -
House Impeaches President Johnson, Sentate Aquits
Whe Johnson fires Stanton, The House of Representatives charges him with "high crimes and misdemeanors" and impeached him. The Senate voted one vote short of conviction. -
Grant Elected President
Though Grant was an excellent war leader, he did not understand the job of a president. This misunderstanding left the president ineffective and created a divide among the Republicans. -
15th Amendmment
The right to vote "shall not be denied ... on account of race, color, mor previous condition of servitude." Basically, a person is entitled to their right to vote in the U.S. even if they are African American or a former slave. -
First African Americans Elected to Congress
Once African Americans gained the right to vote, many became interested in politics. -
Ku Klux Klan Act
This was one of three enforcement acts created to protect former slaves. The Klan was outlawed and over 3,000 members were arrested. Unfortunately, only about 600 were ever convicted. -
Grant Reelected
Despite his shortcommings, Grant was elected once again. -
The Panic of 1873
When a series of bad investments in the railroad caused an important banking firm of Jay Cooke and Co. to declare bankruptcy, a massive "wave of fear" spread though the financial business people. Many closed their banks down causing the stock market to crash. -
"Whiskey Ring" Scandal Breaks
When a graoup of government officials and distillers cheated the country out of millionns by filing false tax reports in St. Louis, Grant's second term was considered marred. He was not reelected. -
The Compromise of 1877
When it was unable to tall which presidential candidate had won, Tilden or Hayes, many assumed a deal had been made when Hayes went into office. Many Historians still do not know if a deal was actually made, though. -
Hayes Elected President
After the embarrising election of Grant, Republicans did not chaoose him as a candidate again. They choose Rutherford Hays instead. When he had a stalemate in the election with Tilden, he was somehow put into office after the Compromise of 1877.
