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President Lincoln is assassinated(who became President after) (April 14, 1865) 

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President Lincoln is assassinated(who became President after) (April 14, 1865) 

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President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. At Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.
The next President of the United States was President Lincoln's Vice President Andrew Johnson.

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President Lincoln Gets reelected (March 4, 1865)

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President Lincoln Gets reelected (March 4, 1865)

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President Lincoln won his second term against General George B. McClellan. He won by 212–21 in the electoral college, with of the 55% of the popular vote.

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President Lincoln's 10 Percent plan (Dec 8, 1863) 

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President Lincoln's 10 Percent plan (Dec 8, 1863) 

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The 10 percent plan was the Southerners were supposed to have a oath of allegiance to the Union. So they can vote.

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What is the Reconstruction Era?(Dec 8, 1863-March 31,1877)

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What is the Reconstruction Era?(Dec 8, 1863-March 31,1877)

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The Reconstruction Era was a way to get the south to come back to the union after the war. It also helped African Americans have a better connection with whites. It guaranteed rights to African Americans.

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The Freemen's Bureau was Established (March 3, 1865)

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The Freemen's Bureau was Established (March 3, 1865)

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The Freemen's Bureau Act was made to give food and shelter to some Southerners and a few recently freed African Americans.  The Act was in place during the war and was said to be continued until one year after the war ended.

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Surrender from the Confederacy (April 9, 1865

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Surrender from the Confederacy (April 9, 1865

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Robert E. Lee, the General of the Confederates, surrendered his troops to the Union in the Appomattox Court House on April 9th, 1865.  Lee surrendered his confederate troops because he didn't want to harm the south any more than they already were.

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13th Amendment Ratified (December 6, 1865)

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13th Amendment Ratified (December 6, 1865)

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The 13th Amendemnt was ratified on December 6th, 1865 even though the senate passed it on April 8th, 1864. The 13th amendment delared to abolishment of slavery and said that the only time involuntary servanthood was aloud was when you crime was convicted.

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Black Codes were a way around the abolishment of slavery in the 13th Amendment. They were rules that African Americans had to follow and if they were violated, they had to work for little pay. Everyone that had more than 1/8 percent of African Amercian blood had to follow these cruel rules.

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On April 9th, 1866 the Civil Rights Act was passed, granting citizenship to all people born in the US regardless of race, color, or previous servitude. President Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill originally, but his veto was overruled by votes in both the Senate and the House.

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The Ku Klux Klan was a terrorist group that emerged after the start of the Reconstruction. It brought about and is most famous for its violence, particularly towards African-Americans and white people working civil rights.

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This image depicts a member of the Ku Klux Klan and a member of another racist group called the White League, conjoined in a handshake with a skull and crossbones. Below their arms is an African American family knelt over their dead child. This cartoon represents white people plotting together to bring about violence and devastation to innocent black people.

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Following the end of the Civil War, Legislation wrote out a series of conditions, in the form of bills, that the Southern States had to align with in order to be readmitted to the Union.

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Ratified on July 9, 1868, the fourteenth amendment declared that all naturalized or born people of the United States were citizens, with equal protection under the law.

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Ulysses S. Grant becomes president (March 4, 1869- March 4, 1877) 

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Ulysses S. Grant becomes president (March 4, 1869- March 4, 1877) 

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Ulysses S. Grant won the election with an electoral margin of 214-80 and received 52% of the popular vote and was the youngest president elected in U.S history at the time.

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15th Amendment ratified (February 3, 1870) 

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15th Amendment ratified (February 3, 1870) 

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The 15th amendment gives any citizen the right to vote and prohibits the state from denying a citizens right to vote no matter their race, color or previous condition of servitude.

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The civil rights act of 1875 expanded the 15th amendment and also said that any lawsuits fought under the act would be in the federal court and the the state court.

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Since the civil war, the republican party had dominated the house and senate, until 1876 when a democrat won the election and started to end the reconstruction era.