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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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The Freedmen's Bureau allowed new freed slaves to be provided with food, shelter, medical care, and land

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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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Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 am after being shot by John Wilkes Booth in a theatre

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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 Johnsons policies of reconstruction were implemented so that the south could regulate the transition of slavery to freedom and the blacks had no say in the politics

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Black codes were laws that were established, so that blacks had limited freedom and so they could make blacks work with very little pay.

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The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United states

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Confederate veterans started the KKK and they wanted to reverse the actions of the Reconstruction era. The KKK would commit terrorist acts against Blacks and White Republicans

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Everyone born in the united states would be a citizen no matter your race or slavery or even if you were previously a slave

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The Memphis Race Riot was a series of violent attacks against blacks people that lasted for three days

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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 wanted to divide the south into 5 military districts.

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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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President Ulysses S. Grant tried to attempt a treaty during the later parts of Reconstruction era to try and have the annexation of Santo Domingo

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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 14th Amendment allowed anyone to be a citizen if they were born in the United States, with equal protection under the law.

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President Ulysses S. Grant tried to create peace with the South and the North. He supported pardons from former Confederate leaders while also trying to protect the civil rights of freed slaves

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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 Constitutional Conventions destroyed debtors' prisons, it also provided for public education, and destroyed property ownership as a qualification for office holding.

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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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African American men were allowed the right to vote

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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Democratic Party in that state tried overthrow the Republican Party in Mississippi by means of organized threats of violence and suppression or purchase of the black vote.

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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 Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among United States Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and ending the Reconstruction Era.

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An estimated 62-153 black militia men were killed while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers, members of the Ku Klux Klan and the White League. Three white men also died in the confrontation.