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March 3rd, 1865 - Freedmen's Bureau Created

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March 3rd, 1865 - Freedmen's Bureau Created

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-The Bureau was responsible for the supervision and management of all matters relating to the refugees and freedmen and lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War, duties previously shared by military commanders and US Treasury Department officials.
-Although the Bureau was not abolished until 1872, the bulk of its work was conducted from June 1865 to December 1868.
-Because the Bureau’s records contain a wide range of data about the African American experience during slavery and Reconstruction, they are an invaluable source for historians, social scientists, and genealogists.

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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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-A supporter of slavery is who killed Abraham Lincoln.
-Lincoln's three points to his reconstruction plan were to ensure that 10 percents of the citizens of old confederate states swore an oath, then work to establish new constitutions.

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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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-Confederate states required to sustain the 13th amendment.
-Johnson was the 17th president and the only Southern senator to remain loyal to the union.

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-Black codes restricted black people from freedom.
-They lost their rights to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.

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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 thirteenth amendment, "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."
-What does this mean? The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

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-The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning “circle,” and the Scottish-Gaelic word “clan,” which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration.
-The KKK engaged in terrorist raids that were mainly against African Americans and white Republicans.

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-The massacre of 1866 was a series of violent events that happened from May 1st to May 3rd.
-black Union veterans and white policemen and firemen clashed in a violent fracas

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March 2, 1867 - Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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March 2, 1867 - Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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-The measures' main points included: Creation of five military districts in the seceded states (not including Tennessee, which had ratified the 14th Amendment and was readmitted to the Union) Each district was to be headed by a military official empowered to appoint and remove state officials.
- Laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union.

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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 annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty during the later Reconstruction Era, initiated by United States President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, to annex "Santo Domingo" (as the Dominican Republic was commonly known) as a United States territory, with the promise of eventual statehood.

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July 18, 1868 - 14th Amendment is ratified

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July 18, 1868 - 14th Amendment is ratified

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-Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”
-Designed to place limits on states' power as well as protect civil rights.

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-The Election of 1868 helped in preserving the Union and preventing a larger rift between Republicans and Democrats. Grant helped in the unification and reconstruction of the United States by ascending to the highest seat in the country.
-Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

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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.
-On February, 25, 1869, more than two-thirds of the members of the House of Representatives approved the proposed 15th Amendment

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-The massacre took place against the backdrop of racial tensions following the hotly contested Louisiana governor's race of 1872. While the Republicans narrowly won the contest and retained control of the state, white Democrats, angry over the defeat, vowed revenge.
-After firing a cannon on the militiamen inside the courthouse on April 13, the two forces fired at each other until the black defenders were forced to surrender. But when they surrendered, the white mob murdered many of the black men, shooting at them and hanging some.

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-The Mississippi Plan was devised by Mississippi Democrats to overthrow Republican rule through intimidation, violence, and paramilitary groups.
-Disturbances occurred throughout the state as Democrats won state elections in the “Counterrevolution of 1875.”

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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 the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.