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Wade-Davis Bill passed into Congress
The bill required the majority of the adult white males in a former Confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the union. Lincoln later poket vetoed it. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Amendment which offically abolished slavery in the United States of America. -
Growth of the Ku Klux Klan
The KKK's goal was to drive out the carpetbeggers and intimidate African American voters so as to regain contorl of the South for the Democratic Party. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Act granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States except Native Americans. -
Howard University is established in Washington DC
The institution was founded byb a group of Congregationalists who wanted to establish a seminary for African American ministers. -
The Hampton Institute is sarted in Virginia
The Hampton institute was started to teach African Americans trading and agricultural techniques. -
Fourteenth Amendment
Amendment granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the Untied States and decalred that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property "without due process of law." -
Election of 1868
General Ulysses S. Grant is voted into office. However, he had little experience in polotics. -
Fifteenth Amendment
Declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied.. on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Ku Klux Klan act is passed
This act outlawed the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. This act is also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871. -
Panic of 1873 spreads through the financial community
A time of Depression in America where dozens of small banks closed, and the stock market plummeted. -
"Whiskey Ring" scandal broke
A group of geoverment officals and distillers in St. Louis cheated the goverment out of millions of dollars by filing false tax reports. -
African American children attend school
In the 1870's Reconstruction goverments built a comprehensive public school system in the South. By 1876, about 40 percent of all African American children attended school. -
Compromise of 1877
A Compromise which settled the dispute over the 1876 presidential election. also known as "the corrupt bargain" -
President Hayes's inaugural speech
Hayes expressed his desire to move the country beyond the quarrelsome years of Reconstruction.
