Major Events Of Reconstruction by Mia Tejada(ST) https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd African American History en-us 2022-03-07 13:48:01 UTC 2022-03-08 14:17:16 UTC hello@padlet.com March 3, 1865: Freedmen's Bureau created tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2081691497
  • Bureau works to help provide former slaves with immediate shelter, medical services, and food.
  • Was initially for year, but remain useful until 1868
    • ]]>     2022-03-07 13:58:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2081691497     April 15, 1865: Abraham Lincoln's Assassination tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2081699994
  • President Lincoln was assassinated 
  • Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C
  • President Lincoln was assassinated due to him mentioning black suffrage for soldiers and others in his speech.  
    • ]]>     2022-03-07 14:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2081699994     April 15, 1865: Andrew Johnson tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2081729892
  • Became the 17th president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
  • President Johnson began to show leniency towards the white South
  • Ordered land restoration to its original owners, including the land given to freed slaves.
    • ]]>     2022-03-07 14:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2081729892     Fall 1865: Black Codes tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2081747945
  • Southern states elected Former Confederates to public offices to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment 
  • Wanted to deny Black men to vote
  • South Legislatures established Black Codes to control labor and establish white supremacy
    • ]]>     2022-03-07 14:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2081747945     December 6, 1865: 13th Amendment Ratified tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083968908
  • Radical Republicans do not acknowledge new governments in Southern states
  • 60+ former Confederates take seat in Congress
  • Clerk of the House refuses to include Southern representatives
    • ]]>     2022-03-08 13:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083968908     December 24, 1865: KKK is Formed tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083969600
  • The Ku Klux Klan was formed to intimate African Americans and to deny their rights
  • Many government officials supported the group 
  • Founded in Pulaski, Tennessee
    • ]]>     2022-03-08 13:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083969600     April 1866: Civil Rights Act of 1866 tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083970341
  • Grants citizenship to African Americans 
  • Guarantees equal rights
    • ]]>     2022-03-08 13:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083970341     May 1, 1866: Memphis Race Riot tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083970801
  • White people and police killed 46 African Americans 
  • 90 houses were destroyed, schools, and 4 churches 
  • Took place in Memphis, Tennessee
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    ]]>     2022-03-08 13:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083970801     March 2, 1867 - March 11 1868: Reconstruction Act of 1867 tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083971731
  • Congress begins to pass more reconstruction laws that override President Johnson's vetoes
  • South divided into 5 military districts and mandate other states to adopt new constitutions 
  • Congress weakened the Presidents control of the army 
  • African American men are allowed to vote
    • ]]>     2022-03-08 13:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083971731     June 1870: Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083974066
  • Initiated by Ulysses S. Grant
  • Added Santo Domingo to the U.S in hopes of it becoming a statehood 
    • ]]>     2022-03-08 13:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083974066     July 28, 1868: 14th Amendment is Ratified tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083974840
  • Guarantees African Americans equal protection under the law 
  • Granting citizenship to include all the people born or naturalized in the U.S
    • ]]>     2022-03-08 13:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083974840     November 3, 1868: Ulysses S. Grant tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083975405
  • Won the electoral college 214-80
  • Was inconsistent in his policy regarding Reconstruction
  • Sent troops to South Carolina to protect African Americans civil rights, but failed to send federal troops to Louisiana
    • ]]>     2022-03-08 13:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083975405     Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083976606 2022-03-08 13:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083976606 1875: Mississippi Plan or "Shotgun Policy" tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083977151
  • To overthrow Republican rule 
  • Planned by Mississippi Democrats 
    • ]]>     2022-03-08 13:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083977151     After the 1876 election: Compromise of 1877 tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083977757
  • Presidential debate whether Hayes or Tilden would become president 
  • Hayes agree to abandon Reconstruction policies in exchange for presidency 
  • The South enforces slavery and violates the civil rights of African Americans
    • ]]>     2022-03-08 13:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2083977757     February 3, 1870: 15th Amendment Ratified tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2084060890
  • All male citizens can vote regardless of race 
  • Women of all colors were denied the right to vote 

    • ]]>     2022-03-08 14:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2084060890     April 13, 1973: Colfax Massacre tejadam8343 https://padlet.com/tejadam8343/haeili7by5cg5xgd/wish/2084066478
  • White rule clashes with Louisiana's all-black state militia
  • 3 members of White League are killed 
  • 100+ Black men are killed, many killed after they surrendered 
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