https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq Timeline en-us 2022-03-08 13:25:18 UTC 2022-03-09 01:17:02 UTC hello@padlet.com zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083966454 Booth was an open Confederate sympathizer during the war. A supporter of slavery, Booth believed that Lincoln was determined to overthrow the Constitution and to destroy his beloved South]]> 2022-03-08 13:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083966454 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083967037 On March 3, 1865, 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]]> 2022-03-08 13:26:40 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083967037 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083968117 The presidency of Andrew Johnson began on April 15, 1865, when Andrew Johnson became President of the United States upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and ended on March 4, 1869. He had been Vice President of the United States for only 42 days when he succeeded to the presidency]]> 2022-03-08 13:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083968117 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083968507 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.]]> 2022-03-08 13:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083968507 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083976762 The Thirteenth Amendment—passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864; by the House on January 31, 1865; and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865—abolished slavery “within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Congress required former Confederate states to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment]]> 2022-03-08 13:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083976762 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083977217 Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era]]> 2022-03-08 13:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083977217 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083977571 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."]]> 2022-03-08 13:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083977571 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083977897 Memphis Race Riot in the U.S. post-Civil War period, attack by members of the white majority on Black residents of Memphis, Tennessee, illustrating Southern intransigence in the face of defeat and indicating unwillingness to share civil or social rights with the newly freed Blacks]]> 2022-03-08 13:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083977897 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083978302 2022-03-08 13:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083978302 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083978599 2022-03-08 13:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083978599 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083978840 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,”]]> 2022-03-08 13:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083978840 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083979210 Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery]]> 2022-03-08 13:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083979210 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083979479 Under the direction of Congress, most Southern states held new constitutional conventions in 1867–68. This time the freedmen voted and participated. The resulting new state constitutions guaranteed the right of black adult males to vote and run for public office.]]> 2022-03-08 13:33:30 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083979479 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083979824 ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote]]> 2022-03-08 13:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083979824 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083980149 In the Colfax Massacre a group of white people attacked and killed a group of African Americans. The violence arose over a power struggle between white Southern Democrats and white Republicans and their Black supporters. The massacre took place in Colfax, Louisiana]]> 2022-03-08 13:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083980149 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083980538 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]]> 2022-03-08 13:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083980538 zimmermanc9809 https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083981143 The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election; through it Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House on the understanding that he would remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.]]> 2022-03-08 13:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/zimmermanc9809/lzm2t36732lis8qq/wish/2083981143