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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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Provided food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to southerners that were kicked out and free 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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President Lincoln proposed a reconstruction program that would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of formerly enslaved people.

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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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He returned all property, except their slaves, to former Confederates who pledged loyalty to the Union and agreed to support the 13th Amendment.

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States passed black codes that limited the rights of Black people, who had been enslaved. These codes limited what jobs African Americans could hold, and their ability to leave a job once hired.

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Slavery was abolished

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This group of people didn't like the idea of free african-americans and even went as far as killing them

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Said all peopke born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."

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Forty-six Blacks (Union veterans were a special target) were killed and seventy-five were wounded. Five Black women were raped by whites, twelve schools and four churches were 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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Conditions southern states had to follow to become apart of the union again after the civil war

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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 U.S. wanted to control Santo Domingo by making it become apart of the union at the time.

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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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Extended liberties and rights too formerly enslaved people

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Ulysses S. Grant was inconsistent in his policy supporting Reconstruction. He sent federal troops into South Carolina to protect African-Americans' civil rights, but failed to send federal troops into Louisiana and other southern states when Reconstruction began to fail there.

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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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The South Carolina constitutional convention met in Charleston with a majority of Black delegates

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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.

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Took place in the small town of Colfax, Louisiana as a clash between blacks and whites.  Three whites and an estimated 150 blacks died in the conflict.

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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 went into effect. Their state government was trying to prevent Black political participation using this Strategy. Plan was made by the white-American Democratic Party to overthrow the Republican Party through violence the White Man's party sent armed patrols to prevent blacks from voting and succeeded in defeating all Republican city officials in August.

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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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It resulted in the United States federal government   pulling the last soldiers  out of the South, and ending the Reconstruction Era.