https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab Johnson was touring the nation by railway during the 1866 congressional elections in an unprecedented attempt to support the campaigns of Democratic candidates and his Reconstruction policies. en-us 2016-09-02 17:48:35 UTC 2016-09-07 00:40:31 UTC hello@padlet.com 210582 https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab/wish/121426821 *1863 January 1, Frees slaves in states in rebellion and authorizes the enlistment of black troops.
*1864 November 8, Lincoln reelected president.
*1865 March 3, The Freedmen's Bureau established. Abolished in 1872.
*April 8, Lee surrenders. Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant. Joseph E. Johnston's also surrender, in North Carolina on April 18 effectively ends the Civil War.
*April 15, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes president.
*December 6, 13th Amendment ratified. Abolishes slavery in the U.S. and Black Codes enacted. Southern states enact laws restricting rights of African Americans.
*1866 April 9, Civil Rights Act of 1866. Confers citizenship on African Americans and guarantees equal rights.
*May 1-3, Memphis Race Riot. White civilians and police kill 46 African Americans and destroy 90 houses, schools, and four churches in Memphis, Tennessee.
*July 30, New Orleans Race Riot. Police kill more than 40 black and white Republicans and wound more than 150.
*July 30, Ku Klux Klan. A secret organization to intimidate African Americans and restore white rule is founded in Pulaski, Tennessee.
*1867, Reconstruction Acts. Congress divides the former Confederacy into five military districts and requires elections in which African American men can vote.
*1868 March-May, President Johnson's Impeachment Trial. By one vote, the U.S. Senate fails to remove the president from office.
*July 21, Fourteenth Amendment ratified. Guarantees due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans.
*November 3, Ulysses S. Grant elected President. The former Union general becomes the 18th president.
*1870 February 23, First black senator elected. Hiram Revels of Mississippi elected to U. S. Senate as the first black senator.
*March 30, Fifteenth Amendment ratified. Extends the vote to all male citizens regardless of racer or previous condition of servitude.
*1872, Freedmen's Bureau abolished.
*1875 March 1, Civil Rights Act of 1875 enacted by Congress.
*1877, Reconstruction ends.]]> 2016-09-02 20:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab/wish/121426821 210582 https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab/wish/121432151 At 7:22 a.m., Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, dies from a bullet wound inflicted the night before by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer. The president’s death came only six days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War.]]> 2016-09-02 22:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab/wish/121432151 210582 https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab/wish/121612504 One of the most important events of Reconstruction was the participation of African Americans (also thousands of former slaves) In the political, economic and social life of the South. The era was their quest for autonomy and equal rights under the law. During the Radical Reconstruction (1867-1877), Congress granted African American men the rights of citizenship and the right to vote, as promised by the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. During 1867-1869, blacks and white Americans stood side by side for the first time in political life.]]> 2016-09-05 15:44:44 UTC https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab/wish/121612504 210582 https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab/wish/121613005 *The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. The 14th Amendment  provided former slaves with national citizenship, and the 15th Amendment granted black men the right to vote.
*white southerners reacted in diverse ways to Reconstruction.
*Southerners that fought for secession and that refused to return to the Union organized as Southern Democrats and worked to block and frustrate federal efforts at effecting major changes in their states.]]> 2016-09-05 15:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab/wish/121613005 210582 https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab/wish/121659617 The Freedmen's Bureau was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South after the U.S. Civil War. 
The Freedmen’s Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, also established schools and offered legal assistance. It also attempted to settle former slaves on Confederate lands confiscated or abandoned during the war.]]> 2016-09-06 02:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab/wish/121659617 210582 https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab/wish/121973773 Reconstruction was a success in that it restored the United States as a unified nation. In 1877, all of the former Confederate states had drafted new constitutions, acknowledged the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and pledged their loyalty to the U.S. government.]]> 2016-09-07 00:23:38 UTC https://padlet.com/210582/c0tu9dpqddab/wish/121973773