Reconstruction

Congress creates the Freedmen's Bureau

Mar 3, 1865

To help freed men and women transition from slavery

Civil War Ends

Apr 9, 1865

Andrew Johnson becomes President

Apr 15, 1865

President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

Apr 15, 1865

13th Amendment to the constitution passes

Oct 31, 1865

The KKK is founded

Dec 24, 1865

Radical Republicans take over US government

Oct 31, 1866

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Oct 31, 1866

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

14th Amendment to the constitution passes

Jul 9, 1868

Ulysses S. Grant is elected President

Mar 4, 1869

15th Amendment to the constitution passes

Feb 3, 1870

First African American elected to the US Congress

Oct 31, 1870

Congress passes the KKK Act of 1871

Oct 31, 1871

In response to widespread violence in the South.

The Freedmen's Bureau ends

Oct 31, 1872

Radical Republicans are no longer in control

Oct 31, 1877

Rutherford B. Hayes is elected President and Reconstruction ends

Oct 31, 1877

Hayes pulls all remaining Northern troops out of the Southern States