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Wade-Davis Bill
An alternative plan to Lincoln's reconstruction plan. Bill required all of the adult white males of the Confederacy to take an oath of allegiance to the Union. -
Freedmen's Buraeau
40,000 former slaves were placed on southern plantations during Sherman's March. The buraeau was given the task of feeding and clothing war refugees in the South using surplus army supplies. -
Andrew Johnson Inaugurated
Vice president during Lincoln's second term. Resident of Tennessee, he was considered a hero in the North when he remained loyal even after the succession of Tennessee. -
Klu Kluz Klan Founded
Founded by six well-educated Confederate veterans. Responsible for over 150 murders by June 1867. -
Fisk University Founded
Located in Nashville Tennessee. Home of the world famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. -
Morehouse College Founded
Alma mater of many black leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Located in Atlanta, Georgia. -
Howard University Founded
Located in Washington D.C. First law school for African Americans. -
The Fourteenth Ammendment
Granted citizenship to all people born in the United States, excluding Native Americans. Allowed African Americans to own property. -
The Fifteenth Ammendment
Right to vote shall not be denied. Allowed African Americans to run for political offices. -
Ku Klux Klan Act
Signed by President Ulysses S. Grant. Outlawed activities of the Klan. -
Panic of 1873
Banks forclosed. Economic collapse. -
Whisky Ring
Distillers in St. Louis cheated the government out of millions of dollars by filing false tax returns. Repotedly, Grant's private secretary, Oliver E. Babcock, was involved. -
Election of 1876
Republicans did not elect Grant for a third term, due to scandals. Instead they ran Rutherforrd B. Hayes against Samuel Tilden. -
Compromise of 1877
Also known as the "corrupt bargain." As a result of it, Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president. -
"New South"
Powerful white southernors and northern financers brought great economic change to the south. Southern industry began to boom again. Many African-Americans, though, lost hope of owning their own land in the south and went back onto white plantations to either work for low wages, or be tenant farmers.
