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Lincoln pocket vetoed Wade-Davis Bill
Wade-Davis Bill required majority of white males in a former Confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the Union. Both houses passed it but Lincoln blocked it with a pocket veto. -
Freedmen's Bureau is founded
It was given the task of feeding and clothing war refugees in the South using surplus army supplies. Also helped former slaves find work on plantations. -
Lincoln's Assassination
John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford's theater. Lincoln died the next day. -
Howard University was founded
The institution that would become Howard University was founded in Washington D.C., by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to establish a seminary for African American ministers. -
Military Reconstruction Act
Divided the former Confederacy into five militray districts. A Union general was placed in charge of each district. Made each state hold a constitutional convention to give the right to vote to all adult male citizens. -
Fourteenth Amenment
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and declared that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property "without due process of law." -
Fifteenth Amendment
The rights of citizens to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Hiram Revels elected to Senate
Hiram Revels became the first African American to be seated in the United States Senate -
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Comprehensive Public school system in the South
During Reconstruction, the goverment built a comprehensive public school system in the South, and by 1876, about 40 percent of all African American children attended school. -
Congress passes the Ku Klux Klan Act
Outlawed the activites of the Klan. -
Horace Greeley nominated by the Liberal Republicans
The Republican Party split and the new Liberal Republicans nominated Horace Greeley, and influential newspaper publisher, as their candidate. -
The Panic of 1873
Started when bad railroad investments forced the powerful banking firm of Jay Cooke and Company to declare bankruptcy. Many smaller banks began to close and the stock market plummeted. -
Whiskey Ring scandal gets solved
Group of government officals and distillers cheated the government out of millions of dollars by filing false tax reports. U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin H. Bristow hired secret investigators and arrested the persons invloved and the distilleries. -
Compromise of 1877
It was an unwritten deal between the Republicans and the Democrats of Congress to recognize Rutherford B. Hayes as president if they removed all federal troops from the South, appointed one southern Democrat in Haye's administration, construction of transoncontinental railroad in the South, and legislation enacted to help industrialize the South. -
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"New South"
The New South was a blend of the old and the new. Industry began to develop, but agriculture remained vital to the economy. 40,000 miles of track crisscrossed the South. Many African Americans worked on plantaions. -
Spelman College was founded
Spelman College was the first college for AFrican American women.
