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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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- Congress approved "An Act to Establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees"
- This was to give displaced Southerners, including newly liberated Black Americans, with food, housing, clothes, medical services, and land.

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April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated 

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April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated 

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- Assassnation took place at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
- Lincoln was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth while watching a play.

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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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- Became President of the United States upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
- Became the first President of the United States to be Impeached.

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- After the Civil War ended in 1865, some states passed black codes that severely limited the rights of Black people, many of whom had been enslaved.
- These codes limited what jobs African Americans could hold, and their ability to leave a job once hired.

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- The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
- Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865

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- Extended into almost every southern state by 1870
- Became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans.

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- 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."
- Although President Andrew Johnson vetoed the legislation, that veto was overturned by the 39th United States Congress

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- The riot started after an alarm went out that African American soldiers from Fort Pickering who had killed several policemen who tried to arrest a black soldier.

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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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- 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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- Some politicians and activists, including Frederick Douglass, supported efforts to annex the Dominican Republic, seeing it as a place where Black Americans could own property and live freely.
- The goal was to annex "Santo Domingo" (as the Dominican Republic was known at the time) as a United States territory, with the promise of eventual 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 14th Amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people.
-Included slaves who where set free after the Civil

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- The presidential election of 1868 propelled General Ulysses S. Grant into the presidency of the United States for the first of his two terms.
- This election was the first to be held since the end of the Civil War.

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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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-This was an assembly of delegates elected by the voters to establish the fundamental law of Virginia following the American Civil War and the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
- This also disenfranchise African Americans and established Jim Crow segregation.

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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 granted African American men the right to vote.
-This was ratified by Ulysses S. Grant

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- a mob of hundreds of white men killed an estimated 150 Black people while attacking the Grant Parish courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana.
- Many of the Black victims were murdered in cold blood after surrendering. Only three white men died.

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- They declared that democrats would carry the elections "peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must." 

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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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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- Democrats controlling the House of Representatives allowed the decision of the Electoral Commission to take effect.
-The outgoing president, Republican Ulysses S. Grant, removed the soldiers from Florida, and as president, Hayes removed the remaining troops from South Carolina and Louisiana.