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During March 31,1865, this was the time of the Reconstruction period. Things started taking place after the American Civil War. A popular name for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, such as Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom."

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While at a theatre watching a show Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Coming from behind him unattended was a man by the name of John Wilkes Booth. Who had entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.,and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. President Lincoln's policies of reconstruction was that he wanted to sign The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction which was Lincoln's plan to reintegrate the Confederate states back into the Union"

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-Andrew Johnson becomes president.
After A.L. was assassinated In 1865 President Andrew Johnson took office. After doing so he implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.

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Soon after the end of the Civil War marked the end of slavery for 4 million black Southerners. "But the war also left them landless and with little money to support themselves. White Southerners, seeking to control the freedmen (former slaves), devised special state law codes. Many Northerners saw these codes as blatant attempts to restore slavery."

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The 13th amendment 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. This is the amendment hat had helped end slavery.

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A very extremely hateful racist group Founded in 1865. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans."

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It was in April of 1866 when The Civil Rights Act of 1866 had been passed and then that act declared all male persons 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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"in the U.S. post-Civil War period, attack by members of the white majority on Black residents of Memphis, Tennessee, illustrating Southern intransigence in the face of defeat and indicating unwillingness to share civil or social rights with the newly freed Blacks."

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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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It was on March 2, 1867, when Congress had decided to override President Andrew Johnson's veto to enact the first of four Reconstruction Acts. "The First Reconstruction Act required each Southern state to ratify the 14th Amendment prior to readmission to Congress."

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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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A meeting had been held by congress On July 28, 1868, They had come to an agreement on the 14th Amendment to be took in to place and this is where the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after 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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It had happened in the middle of summer In July 1865, Governor Perry called for the election of delegates to form a convention to craft a temporary state constitution. The men elected to this convention represented the least obnoxious of the recent rebels, those most inclined to move forward rather than dwell on the past."

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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 united states had came to an agreement to pass the 15th Amendment. This was to the United States Constitution where it officially granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the “right of citizens. The United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

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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 shotgun policy is A old term from the late 1800s where it is mostly known as the "Shotgun Policy" and it mainly took place in South Carolina. "the Mississippi Plan called for the bribery or intimidation of black voters. Financial enticements were given to blacks who supported the Democrats, and violence was waged on others in order to convince them to join a Democratic club for protection."

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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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After the election of 1876 The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal which had been informally arranged among U.S. Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election."