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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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-Congress passed an act to help with the relief of refugees
- It provides food, clothing, shelter, land, and Medical services

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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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-At 7:22, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln
-After being shot, soldiers carried Abraham to spend his last moments around the people he was closest to.

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- Black codes are laws that still implement white supremacy.
-The laws were designed to replace slavery

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- After Georgia ratified it, the act to end slavery was into effect.
-It was abolished "within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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-A group of confederate veterans created the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Pulaski, Tennessee.
-The KKK engaged into violent acts against African Americans.

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-The act was to eliminate discrimination in the sales, transfer, lease or use of property.
-It declared all people born inside the United States are citizens.

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-The riot was set off when a white police officer attempted to arrest a African American ex-officer.
-The victims were originally black men but it spread to churches, school, etc.

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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 First Reconstruction Act was formally titled “An act to provide for the more efficient government of the Rebel States.

-The First Reconstruction Act required each Southern state to ratify the 14th Amendment prior to readmission to Congress.

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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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-The goal was to annex "Santo Domingo" (as the Dominican Republic was known at the time) as a United States territory, with the promise of eventual statehood.
-Grant speculated that the acquisition of Santo Domingo would help bring about the end of slavery in Cuba and elsewhere.

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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.
-Known as the "Reconstruction Amendment," it forbids any state to deny any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

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-Ulysses S. Grant (b. Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio) was the 18th president of the United States.
-He led the Union to ultimately defeat the Confederate States Army in 1865.

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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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-ratified by North Carolinians by a vote of 93,086 to 74,016, was a relatively progressive document that borrowed from the previous state constitutions and added new provisions
-it abolished slavery and provided for universal male suffrage.

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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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-Iowa approved the 15th Amendment to the Constitution to finally secure its ratification with a three-quarters majority of the states
- It guaranteed “The right of citizens of 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.the right of citizens of 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” and gave Congress the power to “enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”

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-after the end of the Civil War, different factions began fighting over power
- many white Southern Democrats tried their best to continue disenfranchising and restricting the rights of former slaves

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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- white conservatives in the state came up with the "Mississippi Plan" to insure their victory in the upcoming elections
-This plan used intimidation of black voters and outright fraud to guarantee that white Democrats would take control of the state government.

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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 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era
-Immediately after the presidential election of 1876, it became clear that the outcome of the race hinged largely on disputed returns from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina–the only three states in the South with Reconstruction-era Republican governments still in power.