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made to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.

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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated  april 15th 1865

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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated  april 15th 1865

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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, took place at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next morning on April 15.

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Lincoln's Assassination Devastates the Nation | Abraham Lincoln

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Andrew Johnson becomes president April 15, 1865

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Andrew Johnson becomes president April 15, 1865

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The presidency of Andrew Johnson began on April 15, 1865, when Andrew Johnson became President of the United States upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and ended on March 4, 1869.

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The best known of these laws were passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War, in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and in order to compel them to work for either low or no wages.

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13th Amendment is ratified    December 6, 1865

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13th Amendment is ratified    December 6, 1865

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The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on December 6, 1865, making slavery illegal in the United States. The amendment states that slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited in the United States, except as punishment for a crime.

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The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was the first federal law in the United States to define citizenship and guarantee equal protection under the law for all citizens. It was passed on April 9, 1866, and was primarily intended to protect the civil rights of African Americans after the American Civil War.

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a brutal and unprovoked attack by a white mob on Black residents of Memphis, Tennessee, occurring a little more than a year after the Confederate surrender.

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Reconstruction Acts of     March 2, 1867

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Reconstruction Acts of     March 2, 1867

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a series of laws that outlined the process for readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union after the Civil War. The acts were passed by Congress on March 2, 1867, after President Andrew Johnson tried to veto them.

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14th Amendment is ratified.    July 9, 1868

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14th Amendment is ratified.    July 9, 1868

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Passed by the Senate on June 8, 1866, and ratified two years later, on July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws.

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  Southern constitutional conventions including freedman

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  Southern constitutional conventions including freedman

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most Southern states held new constitutional conventions in 1867–68. This time the freedmen voted and participated. The resulting new state constitutions guaranteed the right of black adult males to vote and run for public office.

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15th Amendment is ratified. February 3, 1870

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15th Amendment is ratified. February 3, 1870

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he 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on February 3, 1870. The amendment granted the right to vote to all male citizens, regardless of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

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The violence and intimidation of black and white voters, often called the “shotgun policy” or the “Mississippi Plan,” destroyed the effectiveness of the Republican Party.

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he Compromise of 1877, also known as the Wormley Agreement, the Bargain of 1877, or the Corrupt Bargain, was an unwritten political deal in the United States to settle the intense dispute over the results of the 1876 presidential election.