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13th Amendment is ratified

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1. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation
2. lincoln assassinated
3. the thirteenth amendment was ratified.
4. Andrew Jackson becomes president

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Freedmen’s Bureau created
1. Provides assistance to emancipated African Americans.
2. Abolished in 1872.

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1.First Black Codes passed
2. Southern states enact laws restricting rights of African Americans.

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1. Civil Rights Act of 1866
2. "Grants 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." (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reconstruction-timeline/)

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Memphis Race Riot
1. White civilians and police kill 46 African Americans and destroy 90 houses, schools, and four churches in Memphis, Tennessee.
2. assulted blacks for 3 days.

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1. KKK is formed

2. A secret organization to intimidate African Americans
3.  restore white rule is founded in Pulaski, Tennessee.

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1. Reconstruction Acts of 1867 was passed
2. Congress divides the former Confederacy into five military districts

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1. 14th Amendment is ratified

2. Guarantees due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans.

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January 14th and ending March 17th, 1868

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January 14th and ending March 17th, 1868

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Southern constitutional conventions including freedman

1. Black and white lawmakers begin to work side by side in the Southern states' constitutional conventions
2. the first political meetings in American history to include substantial numbers of black men.

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15th Amendment is ratified
1. Extends the vote to all male citizens regardless of racer or previous condition of servitude.
2. offered more protections for suffferage

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Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”
1. destroyed the effectiveness of the Republican Party in most areas of the South as an alternative to one-party (Democratic) rule.
2. Whites left the GOP and rejoined the Democrats or quit politics.

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Compromise of 1877
1.  was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among United States Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election.
2. it resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and ending the Reconstruction Era.