https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e This is The timeline of Reconstruction en-us 2020-09-25 17:58:25 UTC 2020-09-29 18:17:46 UTC hello@padlet.com brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/780303033 The Freedmen's Bureau, formally known as Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,  was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the Aftermath of the Civil War.]]> 2020-09-25 18:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/780303033 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/780375626 On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.]]> 2020-09-25 18:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/780375626 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/780385882 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.]]> 2020-09-25 18:27:44 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/780385882 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789082584 Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War]]> 2020-09-29 18:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789082584 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789088351 Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "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.]]> 2020-09-29 18:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789088351 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789091985 The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning “circle,” and the Scottish-Gaelic word “clan,” which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. Under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans.]]> 2020-09-29 18:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789091985 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789101171 The Civil Rights Act (1866) was passed by Congress on 9th April 1866 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition.]]> 2020-09-29 18:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789101171 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789107610 2020-09-29 18:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789107610 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789110776 Reconstruction Acts, U.S. legislation enacted in 1867–68 that outlined the conditions under which the Southern states would be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War (1861–65). The bills were largely written by the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress.]]> 2020-09-29 18:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789110776 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789113807 On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil.]]> 2020-09-29 18:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789113807 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789118286 As the Southern states were subdued, he appointed military governors to ... Davis, Henry Winter ... He was a Democrat who looked for the restoration of his old party partly as a step toward his own reelection to the presidency in 1868.]]> 2020-09-29 18:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789118286 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789125040 Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote. ... For more than 50 years, the overwhelming majority of African American citizens were reduced to second-class citizenship under the “Jim Crow” segregation system.]]> 2020-09-29 18:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789125040 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789127908 Shotgun Policy in South Carolina, the Mississippi Plan called for the bribery or intimidation of black voters. Financial enticements were given to blacks who supported the Democrats, and violence was waged on others in order to convince them to join a Democratic club for protection.]]> 2020-09-29 18:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789127908 brownr9356 https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789133810 The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among U.S. Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ending the Reconstruction Era.]]> 2020-09-29 18:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/brownr9356/q5vranx20g77965e/wish/789133810