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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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Act passed by congress to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans

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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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He was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. While attending a play in Washington D.C.

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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 was vice president for 42 days before coming president. An old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views

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The end of the Civil War marked the end of slavery for 4 million black Southerners. But they were left landless with little money to support themselves. White Southerners, seeking to control the freedmen, Devised special state law codes. Northerners saw these codes as blatant attempts to restore slavery

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the 13th amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "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

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a group of former Confederate soldiers established the first Ku Klux Klan, or KKK, in Pulaski, Tennessee. Looking for white supremacy and ending Reconstruction in the South. Became America’s first domestic terrorist group

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all male persons born in the United States  were declared to be citizens. "Without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery

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series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866 in Memphis, Tennessee. Racial violence was ignited by political, social, and racial tensions following the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reconstruction. It left 46 blacks dead.

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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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President Andrew Johnson's veto to enact the first of four Reconstruction Acts. Was officially overrode by Congress in March, 1867.

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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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The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed in result of winning the civil war.

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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 Black Codes that had flourished under the constitution of 1865 were overturned. No more Provision against interracial marriage, and public schools were open to all races

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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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officially granted African American men the right to vote in America. No matter if the were past slaves.

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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Mississippi white men resorted to violence and intimidation against black and white republicans. Attempting regain political control of the state for conservative democrats

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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 United States federal government pulled the last troops out of the South, and ending the Reconstruction Era. And officially started a new era.