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March 3, 1865: Freedmen's Bureau Established 

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March 3, 1865: Freedmen's Bureau Established 

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The Freedmen's Bureau was established by Congress to help millions of former slaves. It provided food, housing, medical aid, established schools, and offered legal assistance.

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April 15, 1865: Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

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April 15, 1865: Abraham Lincoln Assassinated

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Famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, John Wikes Booth, assassinates Abraham Lincoln in Washington D.c. at Ford's Theatre. Lincoln was pronounced dead at 7:22 a.m. April 15th, 1865.

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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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Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States after President Lincolns assassination.

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Black codes were made and enacted in Confederate states. They were designed to replace the social controls of slavery, after slavery was abolished in the Emancipation Proclamation. Black codes were created to keep the continuance of white supremacy in the south. Black codes restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely in public areas.

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December 6, 1865: 13th Amendment is ratified 

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December 6, 1865: 13th Amendment is ratified 

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The 13th amendment which states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." was ratified, abolishing Slavery in America.

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The klan was formed by many former Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee. The first leader was Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. The KKK targeted black people, using intimidation, violence, and murder, all to maintain white supremacy both in social life and in Southern governments.

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Civil Rights Bill is vetoed by President Johnson, and congress overrides the veto passing the bill. The Civil Rights Bill grants citizenship and the same right enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons of the united states.

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For three days White people assaulting Black people on the streets of Memphis, Tennessee. 48 victims nearly all black are killed, hundreds of black homes, schools, and churches are burned.

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868: Reconstruction Act 

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868: Reconstruction Act 

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The Reconstruction Act divided former Confederate states (except Tennessee) into five military districts. All these states were required to write a new constitution, and need approval from majority of voters, including Black people. These confederate states would gain full recognition of federal representation once again, in Congress after each criteria was met.

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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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The treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo was a failed American treaty. The president thought annexation would be a safety valve for emancipated blacks that were suffering from American persecution. It failed due to the republican parties around President Grant.

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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 in summary says that no states can make any laws that take away in any extent, a person's privileges or immunities of citizens of the unites states, and no state should take away a person's life, liberty, or property without due process of the law. This was created to grant citzeanship and protect the civil liberties of all black people.

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Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president, but he was also a Commanding General that led the Union Armies to victory over Confederate armies. He was the symbol of Union Victory during the civil war. He outlawed Racial discrimination in public transportation, and accommodations and barred black exclusion from jury duty. He also sent Military troops to stop acts of the KKK.

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Convention 

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Convention 

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The first political meetings in the history of American to include Black lawmakers, while working aside White lawmakers.

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February 3, 1870: The 15th amendment is ratified 

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February 3, 1870: The 15th amendment is ratified 

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The 15th amendment secures the right to vote to all people no matter of race or pervious condition of servitude, and that the U.S. or States can not deny those rights.

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Paramilitary group, The white League, crashes with Louisiana, a primarily black state militia. There were around a hundred deaths of black men, and only 3 deaths of white men.

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The Mississippi Plan was developed by white Southern Democrats. It was created to overthrow the republican party of Mississippi due to their organized threats of violence and impression and buying of black votes.

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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 Republican Rutherford Hayes, that settled the election of 1876, also marking the end of the Reconstruction Era of the Unites States.