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1870 BCE
15th Amendment.
The 15th Amendment guaranteed African-American men the right to vote. -
1868 BCE
14th Amendment.
It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War. -
1867 BCE
Military Reconstruction Acts.
They wanted to punish the South, and to prevent the ruling class from continuing in power. -
1866 BCE
Civil Rights Act of 1866.
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude." -
1866 BCE
Ku Klux Klan.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is an American white supremacist terrorist hate group founded in 1865. -
1865 BCE
The Freedmen’s Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. -
1865 BCE
President Lincoln is Assassinated.
Andrew Johnson became the 17th President. John Wilkes Booth assassinated him. -
1865 BCE
The 13th Amendment is Passed.
the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Trial.
he had violated the Tenure of Office Act. -
Election of Ulysses S. Grant.
The unprecedented way that Grant ran his cabinet, in a military-style rather than civilian -
Reconstruction Ends.
The Compromise of 1877