Reconstruction

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  • 1865

    1865
    Civil war ends.

  • 1866

    1866
    Civil rights act of 1866 allows african americans to own property and be treated equally in court

  • 1867

    1867
    Radical republicans takeover the united states government

  • 1868

    1868
    14th amendment to the constitution passes

  • 1869

    1869
    Ulyssess S. Grant is elected president

  • 1870

    1870
    15th amendment to the constitution passes

  • 1871

    1871
    Congress passes the Ku Klux Klan act of 1871 in response to reports of worldwide spread of violence in the south

  • 1872

    1872
    The freedman’s bureau ends

  • 1874

    1874
    Democrats take control of the united states congress. Radical republicans are no longer in power

  • 1877

    1877
    Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president and officially ends reconstruction. Hayes pulls all remaining northern troops out of the south