Reconstruction

By kfinle3003

  • Congress creates the Freedmen's Bureau

    To help freed men and women transition from slavery

  • Civil War Ends

  • Andrew Johnson becomes President

  • President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

  • 13th Amendment to the constitution passes

  • The KKK is founded

  • Radical Republicans take over US government

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Allows African Americans to own property and to be treated equally in court.

  • 14th Amendment to the constitution passes

  • Ulysses S. Grant is elected President

  • 15th Amendment to the constitution passes

  • First African American elected to the US Congress

  • Congress passes the KKK Act of 1871

    In response to widespread violence in the South.

  • The Freedmen's Bureau ends

  • Radical Republicans are no longer in control

  • Rutherford B. Hayes is elected President and Reconstruction ends

    Hayes pulls all remaining Northern troops out of the Southern States