Reconstruction

By JDArePurple

  • Lincoln proposed the Thirteenth Amendment

  • The Civil War ended

  • Lincoln was shot at a play

  • Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau

  • The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified and took effects

  • All southern states except Texas had created new government

  • The Ku Klux Klan was made

  • A dispute is Memphis hurt Johnson's vote

  • The Radical Republicans urged the Congress to propose a new deal

  • Congress passed the first of several Reconstruction Acts

  • Johnson didn't run for another term

  • Congress made the Fifteenth Amendment

  • More than 150,000 African American students were in 3,000 schools

  • The Panic of 1873 until 1876 made 2 million people out of work

  • Congress ruled the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional