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- This was created to make a relief for freedmen and refugees.
- This included food, water, clothes, land, and medical service to southerners and freed African-Americans.
- This was supposed to be founded on racial equality

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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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- Shot by John Wilkes Booth
- Shot in the Ford Theater in Washington DC
- The assassin said "Sic semper tyrannis!" as he shot Lincoln which means "thus always to tyrant".

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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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- Andrew Johnson replaces Lincoln after his assassination.
- He was an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat.
- He liked to drink.

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April 15, 1862 - Andrew Johnson Becomes President

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January 31, 1865 13th Amendment is ratified

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January 31, 1865 13th Amendment is ratified

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- Slavery is abolished.
- Congress requires other confederate states to ratify the amendment as well.

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- Black codes were passed to limit African-American's freedoms.
- They were made to transform the race into a cheap workforce.
- Even though slavery was abolished there was lots of unpaid labor.

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- The secret society was made to resist the reconstruction era activities in the south.
- The KKK philosophized on racial superiority and wanted to push back on African-Americans.

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- This act declared all people born in the US are citizens.
- This is despite race, color or religion.

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- Forty-Six black people were killed and seventy-five were wounded.
- Five black women were raped and twelve schools were burned down as well as four churches.

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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 bill divided the previously confederate states into five military districts.
- The act became law on March 2, 1867.

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- This amendment allowed citizenship to all people born and naturalized in the US.
- This includes formerly enslaved people and are granted equal protection.

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March, 1867  Southern constitutional conventions including freedman

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March, 1867  Southern constitutional conventions including freedman

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- This was to include blacks in political and judicial processes.
- They wanted to the governent o rely on checks and balances.

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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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- This amendment made sure citizens votes could not be denied or abridged based on race, color, religion, etc.

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1876 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1876 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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- This was the bribe and intimidation of black voters.
- Violence and other forms of convincing were used on blacks.

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- An informal deal that settled the 1876 election.