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-Wade-Davis Bill passed by Congress but killed by Lincoln's pocket veto
-Wade-Davis Bill proposed to delay the formation of new Southern governments, until there was a majority of voters, who had done the loyalty oath.
-Lincoln chose not to sign it

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- (March) Freedmen's Bureau established; This provided to African American slaves, including even newly freed slaves, food, shelter, medical services, clothing, & land
-(April) Lincoln assassinated;Andrew Johnson succeeds him as president; Johnson inaugurated the period of Presidential
-Lincoln's assassination was a turning point because it dramatically changed the Reconstruction era.
-Reconstruction (1865-67)
-Johnson implements restoration plan; He offered a pardon to all Southern Whites except wealthy plantation owners, and/or Confederate leaders
-Ex-Confederate states pass Black Codes to limit freedpeople's rights; it required African Americans to sign a yearly labor contract, in which it limited their rights; African Americans resisted these new implementations
-Thaddeus Stevens was a Radical Republican who was an advocate of Freedmen's political and economic rights; In addition, his biggest impact was helping runaway slaves escape to Canada; he was also actively involved in the Underground Railroad
-Moreover, he and another senator named, Charles Sumner called the establishment of new Southern governments that would be based on equality before the law & universal male suffrage.
-The 13th Amendment was a one of the turning points during the Reconstruction because it "abolished slavery". Well not exactly, although it did not stop slavery and inequality from happening, it was still a stepping stone for change.

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-Civil Rights Act passes over Johnson's veto; This act stated that all citizens were to be protected equally by the law
-Fourteenth Amendment(June): it established national citizenship for all individuals born in the U.S.; it also prohibited states from depriving citizens of their civil rights under the law
-Major Republican gains in congressional elections; the Republicans won in both the Senate & House; this allowed them to easily override any veto from President Johnson
-Many Northern Voters rejected Johnson's policies

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-(March) Reconstruction Act; This act divided the South military into five districts, except Tennessee. Each state was under the command of a Union general. It also outlined how new governments were to be established

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-Impeachment of Andrew Johnson; He could no longer obstruct the course of the Reconstruction because he had no power
-Fourteenth Amendment ratified; it was passed in 1866, but it ratified until this year
-Ulysses S. Grant elected president; he was elected that fall and became the 18th U.S. president

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(February) Fifteenth Amendment: It allowed all citizens the right to vote, no matter their race, color, or if they were former slaves; In other words, this amendment prohibited states to forbid any citizen from voting; it was ratified in 1870.
-American Women Suffrage Association; their purpose was to advocate for women's rights to vote; their organization was headquartered in Boston

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-Ku Klux Klan at peak of power; their purpose was to restore white supremacy in the South and to defeat Radical Reconstruction; they did well in areas in particular, where there were little African Americans; they would destroy black churches, schools, and other places where black people went
-Scalawags or native-born white Republicans were most of them non-slaveholding small farmers from the Southern countryside; they were also the second largest group that made up the Southern Republicanism.
-Carpetbaggers were men who carried their property in cheap suitcases called carpet bags; they were recent arrivals from the Northern side, who were former Union troops, businessmen, or teachers.
-Congress passes Enforcement Laws to suppress Klan; the Republican state governments turned to Congress for help; these laws allowed the U.S. president to arrest individuals without charge and federal forces were allowed to be sent to suppress Klan violence
-Fifteenth Amendment ratified; it granted black men the right to be allowed to vote

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-(May) Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872, in which, it restored full rights to everyone, except 500 confederate sympathizers.
-Grant reelected; (November) he defeated Horace Greeley in the presidential election
-Credit Mobilier scandal emerges; illegal manipulation of contracts by a construction & finance associated with the building of the Union Pacific Railroad; this incident symbolized a post-Civil war corruption, therefore, establishing Crédit Mobilier

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-Panic of 1873 ushers in severe economic depression; this was a financial crisis in North America, in which it happened when the investing company, investing in railroads, called "Jay Cooke and Company" closed their doors, causing a massive economic panic

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-Sweeping Democratic gains in congressional elections; this was a major loss for the Republicans- they lost 93 total seats

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-Whiskey Ring and other scandals undermine Grant administration
-Minor v. Happersett: Supreme Court riles that fourteenth Amendment does not extend voting right to women

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-Supreme Court severely curtails Reconstruction in U.S. v. Cruikshank; this was one of the biggest U.S. Supreme court cases

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-Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president; within his first year of being  president, he ended Reconstruction by drawing federal soldiers from states still under occupation
-The compromise of 1877 marked the end of the Reconstruction era, in which it was an informal agreement between Hayes' Republican allies and southern Democrats.
-Reconstruction officially ends in March