Reconstruction

By maddy_harlan

  • Thirteenth Amendment

    Thirteenth Amendment
    The Thirteenth Amendment was approved in January and was ratified in December. This Amendment was put into the United States Constitution was to abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865.

  • Freedmen's Bureau

    Freedmen's Bureau
    The Freedmen's Bureau is and agency of the War Department to set up and assist freed slaves in getting relief, jobs, fair treatment, and education. This was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath if the U.S. Civil War.This is what started to get only for whites and only for blacks.

  • President Assassination

    President Assassination
    President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth in the back of the head. He was steady until the next morning he died.

  • Fourteenth Amendment

    Fourteenth Amendment
    The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to the United States Constitution on July 9th, 1868. It was on of the Reconstruction Amendments. The Amendment said that citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in the related to former slaves following the American Civil War.

  • Ulysses. S. Grant

    Ulysses. S. Grant
    Ulysses S. Grant was a general and political leader of the nineteenth century. Grant became commanding general of the Union army during the Civil War. In 1869, at age 46, Grant became the youngest president of the United States. 18th president.

  • Fifteenth Amendment

    Fifteenth Amendment
    The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870. This Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and the state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. They can't be denied at all.

  • P.B.S. Pinchback

    P.B.S. Pinchback
    P.B.S Pinchback was acting governor of Louisiana from December 9,1872, to January 13, 1873. He was a black politician. He was also the first black to serve as a state governor and his tenure is extremely short.

  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act
    President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with almost 75 pens.The Civil Rights Act which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It is considered on of the biggest achievements of the civil rights movement.