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The 13th Ammendment officially ended slavery in the entire US.
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A secret, yet soon to become infamous, group has started to meet in Pulaski, Tennessee. Their goal was to intimidate the black voters to not vote.
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Tennesee becomes the first former Confederate state to join the Union.
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The act divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts. By 1868, six former Confederate states had been reinstated into the Union.
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The Senate voted 35 to 19 to try convict the president with a charge of refusing the Tenure of Office Act. He was one vote short of actually being impeached.
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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. In addition, it forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
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The United States presidential election of 1868 was the first presidential election to take place after the American Civil War, during the period referred to as Reconstruction. Three of the former Confederate states (Texas, Mississippi, and Virginia) were not yet restored to the Union and therefore could not vote in the election.
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This ammendment declares that the right to vote shall not be denied by any pretense.
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Texas agrees to becoming part of the Union once again.
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Under the Klan Act during Reconstruction, federal troops were used rather than state militias to enforce the law, and Klansmen were prosecuted in federal court, where juries were often predominantly black. Hundreds of Klan members were fined or imprisoned, and habeas corpus was suspended in nine counties in South Carolina.
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Jay Cooke and Company, a large and respected banking house declares itself bankrupt, and announces its failure on September 18, 1873
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A group of distillers and public officials defrauded the federal government of liquor taxes.
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The Compromise of 1877 occurred after the Presidential Election of 1876, when Congress formed the Electoral Commission to resolve disputed Democratic Electoral votes from the South.
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Spelman College was the first African-American College to offer services to African-American women.
