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1.) Schooling for African Americans
2.) the power to divide up abandoned confederate land for former slaves

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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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Lincoln goal was the bring the southern states back into the fold in order to restore the union.
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor assassinated President Lincoln.

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April 15, 1856 Andrew Johnson becomes president. 

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April 15, 1856 Andrew Johnson becomes president. 

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1.) gave the white south a free hand in the south
2.) offered no role to blacks in politics.

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1.) Made to restrict African American freedom
2.) compel them to work for low wages.

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Dec. 6, 1865 13th Amendment is ratified 

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Dec. 6, 1865 13th Amendment is ratified 

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1.) Abolished slavery
2.) Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the united states.

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1.) A group of confederate veterans  start the KKK.
2.) The KKK grew from a secret social fraternity to a force bent on reversing the reconstruction.

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all male persons born in the United States to be citizens

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1.) The riot began when a white police officer attempted to arrest a black ex-soldier and an estimated fifty blacks showed up to stop the police from jailing him.
2.) The victims initially were only black soldiers, but the violence quickly spread to other blacks living just south of Memphis who were attacked while their homes, schools, and churches were destroyed.

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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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1.) laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union.
2.) Each district was to be headed by a military official empowered to appoint and remove state officials.

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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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1.) granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
2.) including former slaves and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions

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1.) Voting rights for black males, as required by Congress.

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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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1.) granted voting rights to African American men
2.) participation in the American democratic process to millions of formerly enslaved,

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1.) called for the bribery or intimidation of black voters.
2.) 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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After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877

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After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877

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1.) an unwritten deal, arranged among U.S. Congressmen
2.) Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina became Democratic once again, bringing an end to the Reconstruction era.