Reconstruction Timeline by Ashley Spence(ST) https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt en-us 2021-02-11 14:38:12 UTC 2025-12-11 12:43:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9d0.png March 3, 1865 Freedmen’s Bureau created spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192509737 -created to smooth the transition from slavery
-provided former slaves with shelter and medical services
-was like a middle man during negotiations]]> 2021-02-11 14:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192509737 April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192535472 -assassinated by stage actor John Wilkes Booth
-caused Andrew Johnson to become president]]> 2021-02-11 14:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192535472 April 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192544328 -vice president becomes president to fill in for assassinated President Lincoln
-his presidency ended on March 4, 1869]]> 2021-02-11 14:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192544328 Fall 1865 Black Codes spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192547516 -they were laws that restricted black citizens in labor
-banned African Americans to work anything but field jobs, and basically allowed people to treat the freedmen as slaves]]> 2021-02-11 14:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192547516 Dec 6, 1865 13th Amendment is ratified spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192549818 -abolished slavery in the US
- only exception is if a person is convicted of a crime and servitude is part of the punishment]]> 2021-02-11 14:48:21 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192549818 Dec 24, 1865 KKK is formed spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192552601 -Ku Klux Klan started in Tennessee
-they wanted to undo the Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially ones that helped the African Americans]]> 2021-02-11 14:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192552601 April, 1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866 spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192553897 -allowed citizenship and the rights that go with it to all male people in the US, including black men
-President Johnson tries to veto it, but Congress overrules it]]> 2021-02-11 14:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192553897 May 1, 1866 Memphis Race Riot spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192555998 -white assault black and ransack and burn hundreds of black homes and communities
-48 are dead, majority of them black]]> 2021-02-11 14:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192555998 March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867 spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192558009 -also known as the Radical Reconstruction
-the acts place soldiers in the South and require states to make new constitutions, allow black voting, and support the 14th amendment]]> 2021-02-11 14:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192558009 July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192560243 -granted citizenship to people born in the US
-protected people's life, freedom, and property equally]]> 2021-02-11 14:50:11 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192560243 Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192562804 - first time black voters had participated in one in the South 
-during this convention, Black Codes were abolished]]> 2021-02-11 14:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192562804 February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192566595 -gave citizens the right to vote
-women and African Americans could officially not be denied a vote]]> 2021-02-11 14:51:21 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192566595 1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy” spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192570753 -this was using intimidation and violence against black and white voters
-it was mainly targeted at Republicans ]]> 2021-02-11 14:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192570753 After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877 spencea8551 https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192574582 -it was an agreement between southern Democrats and people in support of  Republican Rutherford Hayes
- ended up with the Democrats not protesting Hayes’ victory and Republicans withdrawing  federal troops from the South, making the South Democratic again]]> 2021-02-11 14:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/spencea8551/68t8kz8nqmbd0lrt/wish/1192574582