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in march 1865, lincoln and congress set up the freedmans bureau. the bureau helped freed african americans adjust to freedom.
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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.
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Andrew Johnson becomes the seventeenth president upon the death of Abraham Lincoln
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Abolishes slavery from the United States.
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Southern states enact laws restricting rights of African Americans.
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Confers citizenship on African Americans and guarantees equal rights.
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A secret organization to intimidate African Americans and restore white rule is founded in Pulaski, Tennessee.
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Congress divides the former Confederacy into five military districts and requirs elections in which African American men can vote.
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By one vote, the U.S. Senate fails to remove the president from office
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Guarantees due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans.
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The former Union general becomes the 18th president
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Extends the vote to all male citizens regardless of racer or previous condition of servitude.
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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.
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Guarantees equal rights to African Americans in public accomodations and jury service. Ruled unconstitutional in 1883.
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President Rutherford Hayes withdraws federal troops from the South protecting the Civil Rights of African Americans.
