Re

reconstruction

By SilverCorbs

  • 1865

    1865
    Abraham Lincon assassinated; Black Jamaicans rebel against the wealthy planter class

  • 1868

    1868
    President Andrew John Jackson is impeached and removed from office.

  • 1869

    1869
    Indiana becomes the 14th state to ratify the fifteenth amendment

  • 1870

    1870
    Hiram Revels becomes the first African American to serve the U.S Senate

  • 1877

    1877
    The Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction