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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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- provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans
-Passed a new law

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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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-Lincoln was assassinated 6 days after the Civil War ended.
-his 10 % policy was intended to ensure the safety of slaves.

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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 became president when Lincoln was assassinated.
-He was a Southern Democrat

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-They were made to "re-establish" white supremacy.
-Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans

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-Abolished slavery
-Blacks were more equal.

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-the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction.
- Pulaski, Tennessee a group of Confederate veterans formed a secret society called KKK.

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-The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens.
-this included race, color, or previous condition.

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-Violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3.
-The racial violence was started 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 new session of Congress started to pass additional reconstruction laws, topping President Johnson's vetoes and gave a more extreme attitude toward the South.
- The new policies divide the South into military districts and require the states to adopt new constitutions, introduce black suffrage, and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.

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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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- gave citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” which included former slaves who have been freed after the Civil War.
- The amendment had been rejected by most Southern states but was ratified by the required three-fourths of the states.

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions

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-1868 Constitution were: Voting rights for black males, as required by Congress.
-It was the first Mississippi constitution sent to the people for ratification.

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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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-Granted African American men the right to vote.
-For over 50 years the majority of African Americans were 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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-the Mississippi Plan called for the bribery or intimidation of black voters.
-Financial enticements were given to blacks who supported the 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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- Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina became Democratic once again.
-Put an end to the Reconstruction era