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March 3, 1865
-Congress passed an act to service black freedmen and refugees to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to poor southerners and freed African American.
- Passing this act was hard because white southerners were hostile to the bureau members and freed slaves.

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April 15, 1865
-John Wilkes Booth a confederate sympathizer assassinated Abraham at Ford's theatre in Washington.
-Attack happened five days after confederate General Robert Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox court house, effectively ending the American Civil War.

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April 15, 1865
- Became president upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
-After the death of Abraham he continued to reconstruct the confederate states, and he pardoned al who would take an oath of allegiance.

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December 6, 1865
- Abolishes slavery in the United States and provides that forced labor, except as punishment for a crime, should not exist in the United States.
- Was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.

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1865-1866
- A.K.A Black laws, laws restricting the acts of African Americans.
- The best known of them passed by the southern states in 1866 in order to restrict the freedom of freed blacks and to compel them to work for low wages.

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December 24, 1865
- A secret organization to intimidate African Americans and restore white rule is founded in Pulaski, Tennessee.
- Clan sought to overthrow the Republican Government in south, by using voter intimidation and targeted violence against blacks.

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April 9, 1866
- Declared all male persons born in the united states to be citizens,  "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."
- President Andrew Johnson vetoed the legislation, but the veto was overturned by the 39th Congress.

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May 1, 1866
- Series of violent events occurring from May 1-3. Political, social, and racial tensions ignited the racial violence after American Civil War.
- After a shooting altercation between white cops and black veterans, mobs of white residents and cops rampaged through black neighborhoods committing acts of arson and robbery.

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March 2, 1867
- The process for readmitting southern states into the Union.
- Congress divides the former Confederacy into five military districts and requires elections in which African American men can vote.

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July 9, 1868
- Granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States."
- This included former slaves recently freed. Forbids stated from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law."

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Southern constitutional conventions including freedman 

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Southern constitutional conventions including freedman 

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1867-68
- Most Southern states held new constitutional conventions that allowed freedmen to vote and participate.
- By 1910, all Southern states had excluded blacks from voting.

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February 3, 1870
- Passed by congress February 26, 1869, and ratified in February 3, 1870.
- Granted African American men the right to vote.

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November 7, 1876
- The bribery or intimidation of black voters.
- Financial enticements were given to blacks who supported the democrats, and violence was waged on others in order to convince them to join a Democratic club for protection.

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March 4, 1877
- Informal agreement between southern democrats and allies of the republican Rutherford Hayes.
- Agreement was to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the reconstruction era.