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Freedmen’s Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was created to aid and protect emancipated slaves in their transition from a life of slavery to freedom. Many of the successes and achievements of the Freedmen's Bureau were due to the help of missionaries and charities who provided help with relief work providing food, education support and medical aid. The Freedmen's Bureau was opposed by organizations in the South such as the Ku Klux Klan, who intimidated the agents. -
President Lincoln is Assassinated
The person that assassinated Abraham Lincoln was John Wilkes Booth. President Lincoln´s vice president Andrew Johnson became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. -
The 13th Amendment is Passed
Thirteenth Amendment, amendment to the Constitution of the United States that formally abolished slavery. Abraham Lincoln in 1863 during the American Civil War, freed only those slaves held in the Confederate States of America. The 13th Amendment allows for slavery as a punishment for a crime; it also allows for people to be prosecuted for forcing someone to work against their free will. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act helped ¨African Americans¨ to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication". The Civil Rights Act of 1866 detailed the rights of all U.S. citizens, including the right to buy and sell property, engage in business, make contracts, sue and give evidence in court. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was an important step in the struggle for equality. -
Ku klux Klan
The goal of the original Ku Klux Klan was to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain "white supremacy." -
Military Reconstruction Acts
The congress passed the Military Reconstruction Acts because they wanted to punish the south, and to prevent the ruling class from continuing in power. -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Trial
the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States resolved to impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors; also he was impeached because of his removal of Edwin Stanton. President Andrew Johnson had to answer 12 articles of Impeachment and was acquitted in the Senate by one vote less than the two-thirds necessary to remove him and was allowed to continue his term of office. One fact that I found was that he was a Southern Democrat. -
Election of Ulysses S. Grant.
his presidency was marked by a series of scandals because he served two terms as president and even ran for a third, which he didn't win. In 1873, financial speculation led to a panic and the stock market crashed. Grant try to advance the rights for African Americans by fighting the civil rights for them and Native Americans. He also pushed the 15th Amendment, giving the right of all men to vote regardless of race, color, or whether they were former slaves. -
14th Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment is an amendment to the United States Constitution that was adopted in 1868. It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War. -
15th Amendment
The fifteen Amendment protects the voting rights of all citizens regardless of race or the color of their skin. It also protected the voting rights of former slaves. -
Reconstruction Ends
The reconstruction finally ended with the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877. What lead to the end of the reconstruction was that he removed federal troops from the South and the state governments took over.