Aaliyah's Reconstruction Timeline by Aaliyah Walker(ST) https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v en-us 2021-09-20 13:24:34 UTC 2025-12-04 20:57:32 UTC hello@padlet.com March 3, 1865 Freedmen’s Bureau created walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753975317 -created to help slaves with their transition out of slavery
-provided them with shelter, medical care, and helped them find work 
-authorized for 1 year but stayed open until 1868]]> 2021-09-20 13:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753975317 April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753976742 -in his last speech he mentions black suffrage for soldiers and others 
-killed at Fords Theatre in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth
-Wilkes was a white supremacist who didn't agree with Lincolns ideals on giving African Americans more rights ]]> 2021-09-20 13:28:00 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753976742 April 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753979149 -came up with a plan of Presidential Reconstruction 
-gave the white South a free hand in transitioning from slavery to freedom
-didn't offer blacks a role in politics in the South 
-helped ratify the 13th Amendment ]]> 2021-09-20 13:28:36 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753979149 Fall 1865 Black Codes walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753979853 -restrictive laws made to the limit the abilities/freedoms of African Americans allowing them to become cheaper for labor 
-many states made African Americans sign yearly labor contracts
-refusal may lead to imprisonment, fines, or being forced into unpaid labor ]]> 2021-09-20 13:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753979853 Dec 6, 1865 13th Amendment is ratified walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753980477 -formally abolishes slavery]]> 2021-09-20 13:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753980477 Dec 24, 1865 KKK is formed walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753981322 -founded in Pulaski, Tennessee 
-a secret organization used to intimidate African Americans 
-goal was to regain white rule]]> 2021-09-20 13:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753981322 April, 1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866 walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753982044 -gives citizenship to African Americans 
-guarantees equal rights 
--vetoed by President Johnson but Congress overrides veto ]]> 2021-09-20 13:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753982044 May 1, 1866 Memphis Race Riot walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753982820 -whites assault blacks on the streets
-48 people died (majority were black) 
-hundreds of black homes, churches, and schools were destroyed ]]> 2021-09-20 13:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753982820 March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867 walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753983588 -divides former Confederacy into 5 military districts 
-requires states to adopt new constitutions
-requires elections where African Americans can vote ]]> 2021-09-20 13:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753983588 June 1870 Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753984351 -initiated by Ulysses S. Grant 
-attempted treaty declaring annex (power) over Santo Domingo
-promised eventual statehood ]]> 2021-09-20 13:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753984351 July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753985348 -gives citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the country
-increases the national government's power over the states to protect ALL American's rights ]]> 2021-09-20 13:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753985348 November 3, 1868 Ulysses S. Grant walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753986391 -former Union general
-18th President
-created Justice Department 
-protected African Americans by working with the Radical Republicans 
]]> 2021-09-20 13:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753986391 Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753987433 -first political meetings involving black men
-both black and white lawmakers worked together in Southern states' constitutional conventions]]> 2021-09-20 13:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753987433 February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753988110 -gave male citizens the right to vote 
-race nor previous conditions could keep males from voting ]]> 2021-09-20 13:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753988110 April 13, 1873 The Colfax Massacre walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753988743 -White League intended on securing white rule in Louisiana clashes with majority black states militia 
-3 White League men die
-about 100 black men die (half were killed after they surrendered) ]]> 2021-09-20 13:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753988743 1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy” walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753989359 -devised by Mississippi Democrats to overthrow Republican rule using intimidation, violence, buying black votes, and paramilitary groups
-Democrats wanted control

]]> 2021-09-20 13:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753989359 After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877 walkera0047 https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753990212 -unwritten deal in the US that solved the intensely disputed election of 1876 
-federal government removed last federal troops out of the South 
-ended Reconstruction Era ]]> 2021-09-20 13:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/walkera0047/f3a2hc0nl74ock0v/wish/1753990212