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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 displaced Southerners and 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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Abraham Lincoln by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre 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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The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and ended on March 4, 1869. He had been Vice President of the United States for only 42 days when he succeeded to the presidency

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The war also left them landless and with little money to support themselves.

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Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States

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Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern

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Civil Rights Act of 1866 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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The racial violence was ignited by political, social, and racial tensions following the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reconstruction.

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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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The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) provided former slaves with national citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) granted black men the right to vote

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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 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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Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina held

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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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r more than 50 years, the overwhelming majority of African American citizens were reduced to second-class citizenship under the “Jim Crow” segregation system.

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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After the 15th Amendment was passed in 1870 allowing most of the black males in the former Confederate states to vote, the Republican Party.

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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 troops out of the South, and ending the Reconstruction Era