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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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freedmen’s Bureau, was established in the War Department by an act of Congress on March 3, 1865. The Bureau was responsible for the supervision and management of all matters relating to the refugees and freedmen and lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War, duties previously shared by military commanders and US Treasury Department officials

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April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated (briefly describe him/his policies toward Reconstruction as president)

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April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated (briefly describe him/his policies toward Reconstruction as president)

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Lincoln had a plan called the 10% plan it offered the to ensure 10 percent of the citizens of former Confederate states swore an oath to the union, to then work to establish new state constitutions. and opportunities for full pardons for actions during wars.

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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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after assassination of president lincoln the reconstruction plan andrew envisioned consisted of
pardon would be granted to those taking loyalty oath
a stat needed to abolish slavery before being remitted and No pardons would be available to high Confederate officials and persons owning property valued in excess of $20,000

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Black codes   were laws passed at different periods in the south and around america enforcing segregation
and racial superiority.

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On December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified.

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The Ku Klux Klan is a domestic terrorist organization founded shortly after the United States Civil War ended. it was based on the idea of white supremacy and they used violence, murder and intimidation any type of violent enforcement to ensure white supremacy.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude." The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was the nation's first civil rights law.

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Memphis Race Riot, (May 1866), in the U.S. post-Civil War period, attack by members of the white majority on Black residents of Memphis, Tennessee, indicating unwillingness to share civil or social rights with the newly freed Blacks.

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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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The Reconstruction Act of 1867 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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On this date in 1870, The Annexation of Santo Domingo was defeated.  This was a failed American treaty during the later Reconstruction Era, initiated by American President Ulysses S. Grant.

The goal was to annex "Santo Domingo" as a United States territory,

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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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July 28, 1868,, the 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including formerly enslaved people—is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution.

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With Grant’s election the Republican Reconstruction was allowed to continue, and Congress soon ratified the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied on the basis of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

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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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Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina held at Charleston, S.C. beginning January 14th and ending March 17th,

South Carolina adopted the state’s first constitution in 1776 but did not submit it to the people for ratification. While the 1776 constitution had allowed all men who owned land to vote, the 1778

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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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Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.

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the colfax massacre was one of the most violent massacre
and violent act committed and this was because they wanted the white supremacy and antebellum rules

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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the mississippi plan was when white supremacy groups would keep black voters from voting by threatening them with guns.

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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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The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.