Reconstruction Era (1865-77) by https://padlet.com/jmccol3674/ikwa2xp8oz20gzs0 en-us 2021-11-30 17:08:14 UTC 2021-11-30 17:46:10 UTC hello@padlet.com 1865 jmccol3674 https://padlet.com/jmccol3674/ikwa2xp8oz20gzs0/wish/1920979558   
   The Civil War ends. Lincoln is assassinated.  The 13th Amendment is ratified,  prohibiting slavery.
]]> 2021-11-30 17:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jmccol3674/ikwa2xp8oz20gzs0/wish/1920979558 1866 jmccol3674 https://padlet.com/jmccol3674/ikwa2xp8oz20gzs0/wish/1920997428 The “Black Codes” are passed by all white legislators of the former Confederate States. Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, conferring citizenship on African Americans and granting them equal rights to whites. The Ku Klux Klan is formed in Tennessee.
 
]]> 2021-11-30 17:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jmccol3674/ikwa2xp8oz20gzs0/wish/1920997428 1868 jmccol3674 https://padlet.com/jmccol3674/ikwa2xp8oz20gzs0/wish/1921008316 The 14th Amendment is ratified, defining citizenship. Overturns the Dred Scot decision. 
 
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]]> 2021-11-30 17:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jmccol3674/ikwa2xp8oz20gzs0/wish/1921018324 1877 jmccol3674 https://padlet.com/jmccol3674/ikwa2xp8oz20gzs0/wish/1921023738 A deal is made with southern democratic leaders which made Rutherford B. Hayes president in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South, and put an end to federal efforts to protect the civil rights of African Americans.
 
]]> 2021-11-30 17:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jmccol3674/ikwa2xp8oz20gzs0/wish/1921023738 1879 jmccol3674 https://padlet.com/jmccol3674/ikwa2xp8oz20gzs0/wish/1921026051 Thousands of African Americans migrate from the South to the West to escape oppression.
 
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Tennessee passes the first of the “Jim Crow” segregation laws, segregating state railroads.  Similar laws are passed over the next 15 years throughout the Southern states.
 
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Plessy v. Ferguson case.  The U.S. Supreme Court rules that “separate but equal” public facilities for whites and African Americans are legal.
 
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