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13th amendment
Abolished slavery in the United States. It was approved in January and ratified in December.The KKK was formed in Tennessee. -
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New Orleans race riot massacre
Former confederates, aided by the New Orleans police, fearful that the state would fall out of Southern, white control, attacked the gathering. There were a total of 150 black casualties including 44 killed. In addition, three white Radical Republicans were killed as was one white protester. -
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Reconstruction act
First Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto.Second Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto.Third Reconstruction Act passed over Johnson's veto. -
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The reconstruction act passed
Former slave, Oscar J. Dunn, elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana. Fourth Reconstruction Act passed. Three visions of Civil War memory appeared during Reconstruction: the reconciliation vision, which was rooted in coping with the death and devastation the war had brought; the white supremacist vision, which included terror and violence; and the emancipationist vision, which sought full freedom, citizenship and Constitutional equality for African Americans. -
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Ulysses S Grant becomes president
Former Union General Ulysses S. Grant becomes president. Although allied with the Radical Republicans in Congress he does not provide strong leadership for Reconstruction. He was elected as our 18th president serving from 1869 to 1877. -
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Congressional meeting
Two black members in the House of Representatives including Robert Brown Elliot from the 3rd District in South Carolina. -
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Congressional meeting
Forty-second Congress. 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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Freedmen's Bearue
Freedmen's Bureau abolished. It was an agency of the United States Department of War to direct such issues of provisions, clothing, and fuel, as he may deem needful for the immediate and temporary shelter and supply of destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen and their wives and children.