U.S Reconstruction by Joshua Beasley(ST) https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22 en-us 2022-03-08 13:18:51 UTC 2025-11-13 20:28:14 UTC hello@padlet.com beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2083989069 March 3, 1865  Freedmen’s Bureau created-

  • during the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War, popular name for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.

]]> 2022-03-08 13:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2083989069 April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated - beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2083998009
  • On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
    • On December 8, 1863, President Lincoln introduced his first plan for Reconstruction; the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. This announcement offered a full pardon to those individuals that took an oath of loyalty and accepted the abolition of slavery
    • ]]>     2022-03-08 13:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2083998009     Dec 24, 1865 KKK is formed beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2084007722
    • The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist terrorist and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Catholics, Native Americans as well as immigrants, homosexuals, Muslims, and atheists.
    • December 24, 1865, Pulaski, TN

    ]]>     2022-03-08 13:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2084007722     April 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085026778
    After Lincoln's death, President Johnson proceeded to reconstruct the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865. He pardoned all who would take an oath of allegiance, but required leaders and men of wealth to obtain special Presidential pardons.
    ]]>     2022-03-09 00:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085026778     Fall 1865 Black Codes beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085027850 Black Codes restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces. A central element of the Black Codes were vagrancy laws. States criminalized men who were out of work, or who were not working at a job whites recognized.]]> 2022-03-09 00:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085027850 Dec 6, 1865 13th Amendment is ratified beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085029967
    • Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
    • Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

    ]]>     2022-03-09 00:14:24 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085029967     April, 1866 Civil Rights Act of 186 beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085032778 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]]> 2022-03-09 00:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085032778 May 1, 1866 Memphis Race Riot beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085034669 The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866 in Memphis, Tennessee. The racial violence was ignited by political and social racism following the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reconstruction.]]> 2022-03-09 00:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085034669 March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867 beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085035545 The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.]]> 2022-03-09 00:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085035545 June 1870 Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085036693 The annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty during the later Reconstruction Era, initiated by United States President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, to annex "Santo Domingo" (as the Dominican Republic was commonly known) as a United States territory, with the promise of eventual statehood.]]> 2022-03-09 00:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085036693 July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085037599 Passed by the Senate on June 8, 1866, and ratified two years later, on July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,”]]> 2022-03-09 00:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085037599 November 3, 1868 Ulysses S. Grant beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085039073 A primary focus of Grant's administration was Reconstruction, and he worked to reconcile the North and South while also attempting to protect the civil rights of newly freed black slaves]]> 2022-03-09 00:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085039073 Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085039786 2022-03-09 00:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085039786 February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085043604 The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.]]> 2022-03-09 00:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085043604 1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy” beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085044745 The violence and intimidation of black and white voters, often called the “shotgun policy” or the “Mississippi Plan,” destroyed the effectiveness of the Republican Party in most areas of the South as an alternative to one-party (Democratic) rule. Whites left the GOP and rejoined the Democrats or quit politics.]]> 2022-03-09 00:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085044745 After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877 beasleyj7523 https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085045908 The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among United States Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the Southern United States, and ending the Reconstruction Era.]]> 2022-03-09 00:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/beasleyj7523/gq2m5zryeqh0ko22/wish/2085045908