Reconstruction Timeline by Mohan Lall(ST) https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p en-us 2023-02-28 18:49:54 UTC 2023-03-01 18:20:40 UTC hello@padlet.com March 3, 1865 Freedmen’s Bureau created lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2498463762 - Congress approved "An Act to Establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees" 
- This was to give displaced Southerners, including newly liberated Black Americans, with food, housing, clothes, medical services, and land.]]> 2023-02-28 18:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2498463762 April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499946465 - Assassnation took place at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
- Lincoln was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth while watching a play. ]]> 2023-03-01 17:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499946465 April 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499950713 - Became President of the United States upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
- Became the first President of the United States to be Impeached.]]> 2023-03-01 17:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499950713 Fall 1865 Black Codes lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499955946 - After the Civil War ended in 1865, some states passed black codes that severely limited the rights of Black people, many of whom had been enslaved.
- These codes limited what jobs African Americans could hold, and their ability to leave a job once hired.]]> 2023-03-01 18:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499955946 Dec 6, 1865 13th Amendment is ratified lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499957836 - The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
- Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865]]> 2023-03-01 18:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499957836 Dec 24, 1865 KKK is formed lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499960682 - Extended into almost every southern state by 1870
- Became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans. ]]> 2023-03-01 18:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499960682 April, 1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866 lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499961821 - Declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."
- Although President Andrew Johnson vetoed the legislation, that veto was overturned by the 39th United States Congress]]> 2023-03-01 18:07:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499961821 May 1, 1866 Memphis Race Riot lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499963990 - The riot started after an alarm went out that African American soldiers from Fort Pickering who had killed several policemen who tried to arrest a black soldier.]]> 2023-03-01 18:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499963990 March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867 lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499966130 - Outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.
- The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.]]> 2023-03-01 18:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499966130 June 1870 Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499967821 - Some politicians and activists, including Frederick Douglass, supported efforts to annex the Dominican Republic, seeing it as a place where Black Americans could own property and live freely.
- 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.]]> 2023-03-01 18:11:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499967821 July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499969863 -The 14th Amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people.
-Included slaves who where set free after the Civil ]]> 2023-03-01 18:12:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499969863 November 3, 1868 Ulysses S. Grant lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499971729 - The presidential election of 1868 propelled General Ulysses S. Grant into the presidency of the United States for the first of his two terms. 
- This election was the first to be held since the end of the Civil War.

]]> 2023-03-01 18:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499971729 Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499974565 -This was an assembly of delegates elected by the voters to establish the fundamental law of Virginia following the American Civil War and the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.
- This also disenfranchise African Americans and established Jim Crow segregation.]]> 2023-03-01 18:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499974565 February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499976226 - the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
-This was ratified by Ulysses S. Grant]]> 2023-03-01 18:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499976226 April 13, 1873 The Colfax Massacre lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499977278 - a mob of hundreds of white men killed an estimated 150 Black people while attacking the Grant Parish courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana.
- Many of the Black victims were murdered in cold blood after surrendering. Only three white men died.]]> 2023-03-01 18:18:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499977278 1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy” lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499977603 2023-03-01 18:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499977603 After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877 lallm7844 https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499980649 - Democrats controlling the House of Representatives allowed the decision of the Electoral Commission to take effect.
-The outgoing president, Republican Ulysses S. Grant, removed the soldiers from Florida, and as president, Hayes removed the remaining troops from South Carolina and Louisiana.]]> 2023-03-01 18:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lallm7844/3s8js3y5m8gg56p/wish/2499980649