Reconstuction

By 2017080

  • Freedmen's Bureau Acts

    Freedmen's Bureau Acts
    President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill creating the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Known as the Freedmen's Bureau, this federal agency oversaw the difficult transition ofAfrican Americansfrom slavery to freedom.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Civil Rights Act of 1866
    The Civil Rights Act of 1866 granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."

  • Reconstruction act of 1867

    Reconstruction act of 1867
    The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five military districts and outlined how new governments, based on manhood suffrage without regard to race, were to be established. Thus began the period of Radical or Congressional.

  • Johnson impeached

    On February 24, 1868, something extraordinary happened in the U.S. Congress. For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted, he would be removed from office.

  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    Granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. Barred most Confederate leaders from holding poltitcal offices

  • Grant elected as president

    In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery.

  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

  • Enforcement Act of 1870

    Enforcement Act of 1870
    The Enforcement Act of 1870, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1870 or First Ku Klux Klan Act, or Force Act was a United States federal law written to empower the President with the legal authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States.