Major events of reconstruction by Sairah Tolomei(ST) https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp en-us 2021-09-21 13:42:27 UTC 2026-01-09 04:32:12 UTC hello@padlet.com March 3, 1865, Freedmen’s Bureau created tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758760645 Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.]]> 2021-09-22 01:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758760645 April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln is assassinated tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758761195 At Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth]]> 2021-09-22 01:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758761195 April 15, 1865, Andrew Johnson becomes president tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758761876 Became president because of assasination
April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869 years of service]]> 2021-09-22 01:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758761876 1865, First Black Codes passed tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758763148 2021-09-22 01:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758763148 December 6, 1865, 13th Amendment is ratified tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758763890 abolished slavery “within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864; by the House on January 31, 1865; and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865]]> 2021-09-22 01:49:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758763890 December 24, 1865, KKK is formed tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758765052 Formed in Pulaski, TN
Under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans.]]> 2021-09-22 01:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758765052 April 9, 1866, Civil Rights Act of 1866 tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758765625 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 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]]> 2021-09-22 01:50:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758765625 May 1 and 2, 1866, Memphis Race Riot tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758766398  The riot began when a white police officer attempted to arrest a black ex-soldier and an estimated fifty blacks showed up to stop the police from jailing him
The victims initially were only black soldiers, but the violence quickly spread to other blacks living just south of Memphis who were attacked while their homes, schools, and churches were destroyed.  White Northerners who worked as missionaries and school teachers in black schools were also targeted.]]> 2021-09-22 01:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758766398 March 2, 1867, Reconstruction Acts of 1867 tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758767296 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states
the act became law on March 2, 1867, after Congress overrode a presidential veto]]> 2021-09-22 01:51:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758767296 July 9, 1868, 14th Amendment is ratified tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758767978 granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people,"
provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,” ]]> 2021-09-22 01:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758767978 January 14th and ending March 17th, 1868, Southern constitutional conventions including freedman tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758771313 proclaimed the need for black inclusivity in the political and judicial processes
gave more freedom

]]> 2021-09-22 01:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758771313 February 3, 1870, 15th Amendment is ratified tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758773778 granted African American men the right to vote
even though they could legally vote, there were still voting blocks]]> 2021-09-22 01:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758773778 1875, Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy” tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758775919 white conservatives in the state came up with the "Mississippi Plan" to insure their victory in the upcoming elections
this plan used intimidation of black voters and outreight fraud to guarantee that white Deomcrats would take control of the state government]]> 2021-09-22 01:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758775919 March 5, 1877, Compromise of 1877 tolomeis5947 https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758777383 it resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and ending the Reconstruction Era
an unwritten deal, informally arranged among United States Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election]]> 2021-09-22 01:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tolomeis5947/fm396h5c31tnxaqp/wish/1758777383