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ashley lanzones reconstruction
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Freedman's Bureau
in march 1865, lincoln and congress set up the freedmans bureau. the bureau helped freed african americans adjust to freedom. -
Lincoln's assasination
President Lincoln is shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. He dies the next day. -
Johnson becomes President
Andrew Johnson becomes the seventeenth president upon the death of Abraham Lincoln -
13th Amendment Ratified
Abolishes slavery from the United States. -
Black Codes Entacted
Southern states enact laws restricting rights of African Americans. -
Civil Rights Act
Confers citizenship on African Americans and guarantees equal rights. -
Ku Klux Klan
A secret organization to intimidate African Americans and restore white rule is founded in Pulaski, Tennessee. -
Reconstruction Acts
Congress divides the former Confederacy into five military districts and requirs elections in which African American men can vote. -
President Johnson's Impeachment Trial
By one vote, the U.S. Senate fails to remove the president from office -
Fourteenth Amendment ratified
Guarantees due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans. -
Fourteenth Amendment ratified
The former Union general becomes the 18th president -
Fifteenth Amendment ratified.
Extends the vote to all male citizens regardless of racer or previous condition of servitude. -
Democrats control the Forty-third Congress
For the first time since before the Civil War, Democrats control both houses of Congress. Robert Smalls, black hero of the Civil War, elected to Congress as representative of South Carolina. Blanche K. Bruce elected to U. S. Senate. -
Civil Rights Act of 1875 enacted by Congress
Guarantees equal rights to African Americans in public accomodations and jury service. Ruled unconstitutional in 1883. -
Reconstruction ends.
President Rutherford Hayes withdraws federal troops from the South protecting the Civil Rights of African Americans.
