https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b en-us 2023-02-28 14:14:39 UTC 2026-06-20 17:50:26 UTC hello@padlet.com davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499534753 January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population "henceforth shall be free."

]]> 2023-03-01 13:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499534753 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499547835 President Lincoln begins Reconstruction in the Union-occupied former Confederate state of Louisiana. Lincoln's lenient 10 percent policy upsets Radical Republicans, who expect the South to do more to gain readmission, and believe Lincoln's approach does not provide enough protection to ex-slaves.]]> 2023-03-01 13:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499547835 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499550408 By 1865, some 180,000 blacks have served in the Union Army, over one-fifth of the adult male black population under 45.]]> 2023-03-01 13:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499550408 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499555451 February: President Johnson vetoes a supplemental Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which Republican moderates have designed to extend protection to Southern blacks.]]> 2023-03-01 13:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499555451 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499559281 March 1: The North Carolina legislature holds a whiskey party when it adjourns before the state's first election with black candidates. "We have lost all hope of escaping the vengeance of the Northern people," one state senator writes, "and are preparing for the worst."]]> 2023-03-01 13:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499559281 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499564434 Winter: Black and white lawmakers begin to work side by side in the Southern states' constitutional conventions, the first political meetings in American history to include substantial numbers of black men.]]> 2023-03-01 13:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499564434 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499567942 February 26: Congress passes the Fifteenth Amendment, which attempts to address Southern poll violence by stating that the right to vote can not be denied on the basis of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It is sent to the states for ratification.]]> 2023-03-01 13:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499567942 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499575886 January 10: Grant proposes a treaty of annexation with Santo Domingo in an attempt to find land for freed slaves to settle. Under Grant's plan, freed slaves will be able to relocate to the Caribbean island (the Dominican Republic today). The treaty is opposed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, headed by Charles Sumner, and will never be confirmed.]]> 2023-03-01 14:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499575886 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499577486 October: Congress hears testimony from victims of Klan violence. Grant cracks down on anti-black violence in South Carolina]]> 2023-03-01 14:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499577486 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499579946 May 22: Grant signs an amnesty bill he had advocated. Although the final legislation is less generous than Grant had wanted, now only a few hundred former Confederates are excluded from political privileges.

]]> 2023-03-01 14:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499579946 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499582401 Winter: Articles begin to appear in the New York Tribune, accusing black lawmakers in South Carolina of corruption.]]> 2023-03-01 14:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499582401 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499585476 Fall: The political tide has finally turned in the Democrats' favor; they win control of Congress as stories of black political corruption, continued Southern violence, and a terrible economic depression occupy public attention.

]]> 2023-03-01 14:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499585476 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499587764 March 1: As one of its last acts, the Republican-led Congress passes the Civil Rights Bill of 1875, prohibiting segregation in public facilities. The law will stand only until 1883, when the U.S. Supreme Court will strike it down. ]]> 2023-03-01 14:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499587764 davist1189 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499591264 March 4: Following a bitterly disputed presidential contest between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden, in which both candidates claim victory, Hayes is declared president. In a back-room political deal, the Republicans agree to abandon Reconstruction policies in exchange for the presidency.]]> 2023-03-01 14:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/2499591264 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/3958972148 2026-06-19 17:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/3958972148 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/3958972156 2026-06-19 17:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/3958972156 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/3958973359 2026-06-19 17:48:12 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/3958973359 https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/3958973769 2026-06-19 17:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/davist1189/1pzkkr6lp6k9r71b/wish/3958973769