Reconstruction By eliedmonds@argos 1865 Civil War Ends 1865 Congress creates Freedman's Bureau 1865 All southern states except Texas created new governments Period: 1865 to 1877 Reconstruction Jan 31, 1865 Lincoln proposes 13th amendment Apr 14, 1865 Lincoln's Assassination Dec 18, 1865 13th Amendment ratified 1866 Johnson pardons more than 7,000 people 1866 Congress debates rules for restoring Union 1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866 1866 14th Amendment 1866 Ku Klux Klan created May 1, 1866 Dispute betweem police and black Union soldiers, Turned into 3 day wave of violence against blacks 1867 Congress passes 1st of several Reconstruction Acts. Divided South into 5 districts 1869 grant became president 1869 15th Amendment proposed; put into action in 1870 1870 Hiram Revels becomes 1st black senator Period: 1870 to 1871 Congress passes laws making it illegal to interfere with elections or deny citizens equal protection under law 1872 General Amnesty Act of 1872: former Confederates who didn't hold high positions can run for public office 1872 Grant re-elected 1873 Panic of 1873; severe economic down turn 1874 Democrats gained control of House of Representatives 1875 Civil Rights Act of 1875; African Americans equal rights in public places 1876 Unemployment rises to 14 percent 1876 Republicans choose Rutherford B Hayes as presidential candidate 1877 Compromise of 1877; democrats accept Hayes's victory and all federal troops are removed from the South 1880 Segregation and Jim Crow laws in Southern states 1883 Supreme Court rules Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional and that 14th Amendment only applies to state governments 1896 Plessy vs Ferguson
