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In order to give recently liberated African Americans, food, shelter, clothes, medical care, and land, Congress approved "An Act to Establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees."

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Soldiers escorted President Abraham Lincoln from Ford's Theatre and across Tenth Street after John Wilkes Booth shot him, allowing him to spend his last moments in peace and with those who knew him best. On April 15, 1865, at 7:22 a.m., he passed away in the boarding home run by the Petersen family.

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After President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865, Andrew Johnson was elected president of the United States. His term lasted from that date to March 4, 1869. When he took over as president, he had only been the vice president for six weeks.

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Black people's freedom to own property, conduct business, acquire and lease land, and walk through public areas was constrained by the Black Codes. The Black Codes' vagrancy laws were a key component. Men who were unemployed or who did not have a job that white people recognized were criminalized by the state.

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The 13th Amendment, which was adopted by Congress on January 31 and approved on December 6, 1865, ended slavery in the United States.

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Confederate veterans gather in Pulaski, Tennessee, to create a clandestine organization they call the "Ku Klux Klan." The KKK quickly evolved from a covert social fraternity to a paramilitary organization dedicated on undoing federal government policies that advanced Black people's rights during the Reconstruction era in the South.

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According to the Civil Rights Act of 1866, all people born in the United States are citizens regardless of their race, color, or history of slavery or involuntary servitude. Despite President Andrew Johnson's veto, the 39th United States Congress overrode it, and the Act was passed. The country's first civil rights statute was the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

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The Memphis Massacre of 1866 was a string of violent incidents that took place in Memphis, Tennessee, from May 1 to May 3, 1866. Racism in politics and society during the early phases of Reconstruction, after the American Civil War, was what sparked the racial violence.

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The conditions for rebel states' readmission to representation were laid forth in the Reconstruction Act of 1867. Except for Tennessee, the former Confederate states were split into five military districts under the legislation.

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Ulysses S. Grant, the president of the United States, proposed the Santo Domingo annexation treaty in 1869 in an effort to annex "Santo Domingo" (as the Dominican Republic was then known) as a colony of the United States with the promise of ultimate statehood.

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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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The House Joint Resolution recommending the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was delivered to the states on June 16, 1866. The 14th Amendment was officially adopted by the requisite 28 of the required 37 States on July 28, 1868, and it became part of the supreme law of the country.

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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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In order to draft a new state constitution, elected delegates from all around South Carolina congregated in Charleston for two months in the late winter of 1868. Why? Because this new constitution was one of the main requirements set forth by the US Congress for South Carolina's readmission to the American Union following the Civil War

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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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The 15th amendment, which was approved by Congress on February 26, 1869, and was ratified on February 3, 1870, gave African American men the right to vote.

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The Colfax Massacre took place on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana. Democrats challenged the results after Republicans barely prevailed in the 1872 election to keep power in the state.

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Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy” was developed out of concern for black votes. Whites either returned to becoming Democrats or left politics.

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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, also known as the Wormley Agreement or Bargain of 1877, was an unofficial agreement reached by members of the US Congress to resolve the hotly contested 1876 presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden.