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Thirteenth Amendment approved in January. Ratified in December. Abolished slavery in the United States.
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In June 13, 1866 The Fourteenth Amendment was passed by Congress. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
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In July 24, 1866, Tennessee is the first former Confederate state readmitted to the Union.
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By 1868 most Southern states had repealed the Black Code laws. New Southern state laws saw the emergence of the Carpetbaggers and the Scalawags
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Grant won the presidency in November. About 500,000 southern African Americans had voted for Grant. This helped to show the African importance of society.
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The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution in 1870. Passed by Congress the year before, the amendment reads: “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
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Five black members in the House of Representatives: Benjamin S. Turner of Alabama; Josiah T. Walls of Florida; and Robert Brown Elliot, Joseph H. Rainey and Robert Carlos DeLarge of South Carolina.
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The Freedmen’s Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War.
