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March 3, 1865  Freedmen’s Bureau created

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March 3, 1865  Freedmen’s Bureau created

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Provided displaced Southerners and recently freed African Americans with food, shelter, medical services, clothes, and land.

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April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated 

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April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated 

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Lincoln said, "I think Slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union." He wasn't totally against it, but he wanted the South to suffer, so he abolished it.

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April 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president 

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April 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president 

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He pardoned all who would take an oath of allegiance, but required leaders and men of wealth to obtain special Presidential pardons.

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Black Codes were laws made in the South to limit African American rights.

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The Thirteenth Amendment declares that slavery is Abolished in the United States.

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The Ku Klux Klan was started in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 24th, 1865. The cult became dedicated to the suppression of Reconstruction reforms and seeks to restore white supremacy through terrorist activity, including murder, rape, destruction of property, and intimidation against freed people and their white Republican allies.

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This rights act declared that anyone born in the United States, regardless of race or color, previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude was/is a legal citizen.

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A series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866 in Memphis, Tennessee. The racial violence was ignited by political and social racism following the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reconstruction.

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.

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June 1870 Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo 

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June 1870 Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo 

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The treaty was created to annex 'Santo Domingo' (modern day Dominican Republic) as a U.S. territory, and eventually turn it into a state. The hope was by doing this slavery would stop farther south (like in Cuba). It was eventually voted 28 to 28 and was defeated.

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July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified

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July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified

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Grants citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States. It forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” This helped to better protection of all American's Civil Rights.

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Ulysses S. Grant sent federal troops South (specifically South Carolina) in hopes to protect and enforce Civil Rights for African Americans. Although he did this, he failed to send them farther South (like Louisiana) when reconstruction was failing there.

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

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Under Congress discretion, Southerners had new constitutional Conventions in 1967-1968. However, this meeting also included freed men who voted and participated. This opened the doors for the right of black adult males to vote and run for public office.

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February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified

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February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified

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This amendment granted voting rights to African American men.

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Around 62-153 African American militia men were murdered (while surrendering) by former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan. This is also known as The Colfax Riot and it took place on Easter, 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, the parish seat of Grant Parish.

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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Also known as the Mississippi Plan, it was used to bribe or scare African American voters into voting for the Democratic party, insuring them protection from the violence enforced on African Americans who voted otherwise.

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After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877

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After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877

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An informal agreement between Southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes. It was used to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and mark the end of the Reconstruction era.