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Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States
Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He abolished slavery in America. -
Emancipation Proclomation
Lincoln proclaimed his Emancipation Proclomation which freed all of the slaves in the Confederacy. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendent was adopted into the Constitution. It abolished slavery throughout the United States. -
Lincoln announces his Reconstruction Plan
Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan was his intentions on how to intergrate freed slaves into American society. -
Civil War ends
The Confederate Army leader General Robert E. Lee surrenders to the Union Army Leader Ulysses S. Grant and ends the war. -
President Lincoln is assinated and Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States
President Lincoln was assinated at the Fords Theater by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States. -
Black Codes are inacted
Unofficial laws put in place in the United States with the effect of limiting the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks. Also known as Jim Crow Laws. -
Creation of the Ku Klux Klan
Nathan Bedford Forest was the creator of the KKK . It originated in Tennessee to fight against African American rights in the South. -
Fourteenth Amendment is adopted into the Constitution
Offered all natural born citizens of the United States Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection under the law. -
Fifteenth Amendment
Gave all men the right to vote regardless of race. -
Ulysses S. Grant becomes 18th President of the United States
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Rutherford B. Hayes becomes the 19th President of the United States
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End of Reconstruction
President Hayes withdraws Union troops from the south and officially ends Reconstruction -
Union troops attempt to invade Texas
Union troops attempted to invade Texas using the Subine Pass. They raped, murdered, and burglerized innocent civilians.
