Timeline by Daniel Akinsanmi https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31 Scroll to view en-us 2025-09-24 18:56:19 UTC 2025-09-25 18:45:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f39e.png 1865 13th amendment ratified akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602441552 Abolished slavery in the United States.

]]> 2025-09-24 19:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602441552 Freedmen’s Bureau created – 1865 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602442609 Federal agency established to help formerly enslaved people with food, housing, education, and legal support.

]]> 2025-09-24 19:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602442609 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated – April 1865 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602443577 Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth shortly after the Civil War ended.

]]> 2025-09-24 19:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602443577 Andrew Johnson becomes president – April 1865 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602444477 Lincoln’s vice president took office after Lincoln’s assassination; Johnson’s policies favored rapid restoration of Southern states.

]]> 2025-09-24 19:06:40 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602444477 First Black Codes passed – 1865–1866 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602445390 Laws in Southern states that restricted the rights of African Americans and tried to maintain white control.

]]> 2025-09-24 19:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602445390 Southern constitutional conventions including freedmen – 1865–1867 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602446658 Southern states held conventions to rewrite constitutions after the Civil War, some including representation for freedmen.

]]> 2025-09-24 19:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602446658 Civil Rights Act of 1866 – 1866 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602447387 White supremacist group created to intimidate and terrorize African Americans and those supporting Reconstruction.

]]> 2025-09-24 19:08:58 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602447387 KKK is formed – 1866 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602448137

  • Granted citizenship and equal rights to all people born in the U.S., overriding Black Codes.


    • ]]>     2025-09-24 19:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3602448137     Memphis Race Riot – 1866 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3604474055 White mobs attacked Black communities, killing dozens and destroying property.

    ]]>     2025-09-25 18:26:15 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3604474055     Reconstruction Acts of 1867 – 1867 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3604479420 Divided the South into military districts and required states to ratify the 14th Amendment and grant Black men voting rights to rejoin the Union.

    ]]>     2025-09-25 18:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3604479420     14th Amendment is ratified – 1868 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3604480567 Guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law for all people born or naturalized in the U.S.

    ]]>     2025-09-25 18:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3604480567     15th Amendment is ratified – 1870 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3604483200 Prohibited denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

    ]]>     2025-09-25 18:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3604483200     Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy” – 1875 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3604487237 Strategy by white Democrats using violence and intimidation to suppress Black voters and regain political control in the South.

    ]]>     2025-09-25 18:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3604487237     Compromise of 1877 – 1877 akinsanmid8609 https://padlet.com/akinsanmid8609/dwwrejx5ru13in31/wish/3604488674

  • Ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South, effectively leaving African Americans without federal protection against discrimination and violence.

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