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The Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was originally created towards the end of the Civil War under President Lincoln's emergency war powers as part of the United States Department of War. It helped Bureau by performing relief work for both black and white poor people in war-stricken areas in the South, the regulation of conditions of freedmen (black) labor, and the administration of justice in cases concerning the black freedmen. -
President Lincoln is Assassinated
John Wilkes Booth was the one who killed Abraham Lincoln. After he was dead Andrew Johnson became the new president. -
The 13th Amendment is Passed
The 13th Amendment made slavery illegal in the United States -
Civil Right Act of 1866
The Civil Right Act of 1866 made the African American equal status under the law -
Ku Klux Klan
The goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to oppose the reconstruction policies of the radical republican congress and to maintain "white supremacy" -
Military Reconstruction Acts
The Congress pass the military reconstruction acts because they wanted to punish the south and prevent the ruling class from continuing in power. -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Trial
The House of Representatives impeach President Johnson because he violated a law. 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 -
Election of Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses's S. Grant fame as a war hero caused his presidency to be marked with scandals. When he signed the landmark Civil Right Act grands was thinking to advance rights for African American. -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. -
15th Amendment
The significant of the 15th Amendments was the protection of the voting rights of all citizens regardless of race or the color of their skin. -
Reconstruction Ends
The Compromise of 1877 was led the end of Reconstruction.
