reconstruction 1865-1877

  • the freedman's bureau

    the freedman's bureau

    the freedman's bureau was protection for emancipated slaves.
  • president Lincoln is assassinated

    president Lincoln is assassinated

    president Lincoln was assassinated by john wilks booth. the person who became president after him was vice president Andrew Johnson.
  • the 13th amendment was passed

    the 13th amendment was passed

    the 13th amendment made slavery illegal in the united states
  • civil rights act of 1866

    civil rights act of 1866

    the civil eights act protected ex slaves and helped them gain rights.
  • ku klux klan

    ku klux klan

    the goals of the ku klux klan was to kill African Americans that were free
  • military reconstruction act

    military reconstruction act

    they wanted to stop the south from gaining power so they passed this act to divide the south in to five military districts
  • Andrew Jonson impeachment trial

    Andrew Jonson impeachment trial

    it was for the removal of Edwin staton there was one ;less vote the two thirds of for him to be removed he assumed the role as president when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
  • election of Ulysses s. Grant

    election of Ulysses s. Grant

    many people that worked for him were crooks that tole from the government he also tried to help African Americans by giving them the 15th amendment
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    it granted all people to who ere born and slaves that were just freed from the civil rights movment
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    the significance of the 15th amendment was that it gave slaves the right to vote so it gave them a little more freedom
  • reconstruction ends

    reconstruction ends

    president ruther B heyes took all the federal troops out out of the south