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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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By 1865 over 180,000 blacks have served in the union army

The Third Amendment that was supposed to slavery in the Union completely winS Congressional approval.

The temporary Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands is established within the War Department. The Freedman's Bureau works to help with the transition from slavery, providing former slaves with immediate shelter and medical services.

An they worked with farm owners with labor contracts.

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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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In Lincoln's last speech, he mentions black suffrage for soldiers and some others.

The Civil War ends when Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union general Ulysses S. Grant. Six days later.

President Lincoln is assassinated, and his vice president, Southern Democrat Andrew Johnson, becomes president.

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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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Abraham Lincoln had just been assassinated and Andrew Johnson has just become the 17th President.

In May,Johnson announces his plan of presidential reconstruction.The plan was for there to be anmesty and restoration of property.Except for slaves.This was including the land that given to the slaves also.

The president was a very prideful white american he claim that "white men alone must manage the South"

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Fall 1865 Black Codes start to be implemented throughout the South

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Fall 1865 Black Codes start to be implemented throughout the South

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Southern states elect former Confederates to public office at the state and national levels, drag their feet in ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment.

They refuse to let black men vote.Southern legislatures begin making "Black Codes" to re-establish white supremacy.

The laws made problems and restrictions for black citizens, especially in attempts to control labor.Freedmen are prohibited from work except as field hands, blacks refusing to sign labor contracts can be punished, unemployed blacks could be auction to do labor for white farmers.An black kids could be taken away from there family and forced to work.

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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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President Johnson declares the reconstruction process complete.

Upset republicans are refusing to recognize new goverments in the south.

The Union Army is quickly demobilized. From a troop strength of one million on May 1, only 152,000 Union soldiers remain in the South by the end of 1865.

Southern towns and cities start to experience a large influx of freedmen. Over the next five years, the black populations of the South's ten largest cities will double.

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Racial violence rages in Memphis, Tennessee for three days as whites assault blacks on the streets.

48 people, nearly all black, are dead, and hundreds of black homes, churches, and schools have been pillaged or burned.

Riots break out in New Orleans, Louisiana: a white mob attacks blacks and Radical Republicans attending a black suffrage convention, killing 40 people.

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The Civil Rights Bill, grants citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States. Without distinction of race or color.

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 assault blacks on the streets. In the aftermath, 48 people, nearly all black, are dead, and hundreds of black homes, churches, and schools have been pillaged or 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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The new session of Congress begins to pass additional reconstruction laws. Overriding President Johnson's vetoes and beginning a more hard-line attitude toward the South.

The new policies divide the South into military districts and require the states to adopt new constitutions.

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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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Grant proposes a treaty of annexation with Santo Domingo in an attempt to find land for freed slaves to settle.

Freed slaves will be able to relocate to the Caribbean island.That's what the DR is currently. The treaty is opposed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, headed by Charles Sumner, and will never be confirmed.

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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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Arkansas is readmitted to the Union. Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina are readmitted to the Union.Alabama is readmitted to the Union.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is finally ratified.

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November 3, 1868 Ulysses S. Grant elected

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November 3, 1868 Ulysses S. Grant elected

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Grant is elected president, winning an electoral college majority of 214-80 over his Democratic opponent.

Grant was a anti-slavery president and worked beside slaves and overall wanted slavery to end.

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

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Black and white lawmakers begin to work side by side in the Southern states.

Constitutional conventions, the first political meetings in American history to include substantial numbers of black men.

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The White League, a paramilitary group intent on securing white rule in Louisiana, clashes with Louisiana's almost all-black state militia

Only three members of the White League die,one hundred black men are killed. Of those, nearly half are murdered in cold blood after they surrender.

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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The Mississippi Plan of 1875 or the “Shotgun Policy,” utilized racial terror, violence, intimidation, threats, harassment to overthrow.Black power in Reconstruction era local governments.

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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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March 4: Following a bitterly disputed presidential contest between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden.Both candidates claimed victory, Hayes is declared president. In a back-room political deal, the Republicans agree to abandon Reconstruction policies in exchange for the presidency.

Reconstruction policies officially end.