Timeline by tsomo

Freedmen’s Bureau created (March 1865)

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A federal agency set up to help formerly enslaved people transition to freedom

- provided food, schools, and legal aid.

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated (April 14, 1865)

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- president Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth

- only a few days after the Civil War ended.

Andrew Johnson becomes president (April 15, 1865)

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- Vice President Johnson took office

- pushed for lenient policies toward the South.

First Black Codes passed (late 1865)

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- Southern states passed restrictive laws to limit the rights of freed African Americans

- trying to preserve slavery in another form.

13th Amendment ratified (December 1865)

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- Abolished slavery officially in the USA

-It was the first of the Reconstruction Amendments

Ku Klux Klan formed (December 1865)

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- White supremacist group founded in Tennessee

- used violence and terror to suppress Black freedom.

Compromise of 1877 (March 1877)

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- Ended Reconstruction by pulling federal troops out of the South

- left Black Southerners unprotected.

Civil Rights Act of 1866 (April 1866)

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- Granted citizenship under the law to African Americans.

- granted equal protection under the law to African Americans.

Memphis Race Riot (May 1866)

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-A violent white mob attacked Black residents in Memphis

-killed dozens and destroying Black neighborhoods

Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy” (1875)

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-White Democrats in Mississippi used violence and intimidation

- suppressed Black voters to regain power.

15th Amendment ratified (February 1870)

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-Prohibited denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

-many Southern states later circumvented it with measures like poll taxes and literacy tests

14th Amendment ratified (July 1868)

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-Guaranteed citizenship to all people born in the U.S.

-included equal protection under the law.

Southern constitutional conventions including freedmen (1867–1868)

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- Black men participated in rewriting state constitutions

- the first time in U.S. history.

Reconstruction Acts (March 1867)

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- Divided the South into military districts

- required new state constitutions that included Black men’s right to vote.