Reconstruction by Dwight Smith

Reconstruction

Period: Jan 1, 1860 to Jan 1, 1880

Abraham Lincoln

Jan 1, 1863

Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction issued

Congress

Jan 8, 1864

Congress passes Wade-Davis Bill

Freedmen

Feb 13, 1865

Freedmen's Bureau founed and President Lincoln assassinated

Civil war

Apr 9, 1865

Civil war ends

Ku Klux Klan

May 1, 1865

Created in Tennesse

Black code

Aug 1, 1865

mississippi enacts black code

Transatlantic Cable

Mar 10, 1866

Completion of the transatlantic cable

New orleans

May 1, 1866

New orleans race roit massacre

Military Reconstruction Act

Apr 30, 1867

Congress passes the Military Reconstruction Act

Third Reconstruction Act

May 1, 1867

Third Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto.

First Reconstruction Act

Jun 1, 1867

First Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto.

Second Reconstruction Act

Aug 5, 1867

Second Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto.

Impeachment and Acquits

Feb 12, 1868

House impeaches President Johnson in February

Japanese Modernization

May 30, 1868

Meiji Restoration begins Japanese modernizaion

Suez Canal

Mar 9, 1869

First ship pass through Suez Canal.

Grant

May 1, 1869

Grant becomes president

Hiram Revels

Apr 15, 1870

Hiram Revels elected to U. S. Senate as the first black senator.

15th Amendment

Jun 8, 1870

Fifteenth Amendment ratififed

Joseph H. Rainey

Dec 12, 1870

Joseph H. Rainey, first black member sworn in as member of U. S. House of Representatives.

Ku Klux Klan Act)

Jun 2, 1871

Act to Enforce Fourteenth Amendment (Ku Klux Klan Act).

Germany

Sep 27, 1871

Unification of Germany completed; German Empire proclaimed

Freedman

May 1, 1872

Freedman's Bureau abolished

Civil rights

May 1, 1876

Civil rights act enacted by congress