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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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The Freedman's Bureau was the transition from slavery, providing former slaves with immediate shelter and medical services, helping to negotiate labor contracts with landowners.

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April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln Assassination 

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April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln Assassination 

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President Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, Led the nation through the American Civil War, The country's greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.

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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 was President Lincoln Vice president, and Lincoln was assassinated Southern Democrat Andrew Johnson becomes president.

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Southern legislatures begin drafting " Black Codes" to re-establish white supremacy. The law impose restrictions on black citizens, blacks refusing to sign labor contracts can be punished, unemployed black men can be seized and auction to planters as laborers.

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Abolishes slavery in the United States.

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Radical Republicans in Congress refusing to recognize new government in Southern states. The Clerk of the House refuses to include the Southern representatives in his roll call, and they are denied their elected seats.

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Granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the united states" without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude". it passes both houses of Congress by overwhelming majorities, and when President Johnson vetoes it, congress overrides the veto, making the bill the first major piece of legislation enacted over a presidential veto.

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Tennessee for three days as whites assaults blacks on the streets. 48 people nearly all black, are dead, and hundreds of blacks’ homes churches and schools have been burned.

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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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Congress divides the former Confederacy into five military districts and require elections in which African American men can vote. By one vote, The U.S, Senate fails to remove the president from office.

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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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Citizenship to include all people born or naturalized in the U.S., Guarantees due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans.

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Winter of 1868 Southern Constitutional Conventions 

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Winter of 1868 Southern Constitutional Conventions 

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Ulysses S. Grant a former Union general becomes the 18th president. Won the electoral college majority of 214-80 over his Democratic opponent. Newly enfranchised black men in the South cast 700,000 votes for the republican tickets.

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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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Extends the vote to all male citizens regardless of a racer or previous condition of servitude.

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1875 Mississippi Plan or "Shotgun Policy"

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1875 Mississippi Plan or "Shotgun Policy"

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Guarantee equal rights to African Americans in public accommodations and jury service. Ruled unconstitutional in 1883. prohibiting segregation in public facilities.

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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 & republicans made a deal if hayes won government would pursue a policy of non-interference in the south.