Slave reconstruction timeline by Bronson Silva(ST) https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6 Made with swagger en-us 2021-02-11 13:44:43 UTC 2025-11-24 16:35:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Freedom's Bureau silvab7994 https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1193978050

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.]]> 2021-02-11 18:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1193978050 Abraham Lincoln assassination silvab7994 https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196775956 On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth became the first person to assassinate an American president when he shot and killed Abraham Lincoln in his box at Ford's Theater in Washington. ... A supporter of slavery, Booth believed that Lincoln was determined to overthrow the Constitution and to destroy his beloved South.]]> 2021-02-12 15:07:04 UTC https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196775956 Andrew Jackson silvab7994 https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196790988 Andrew Jackson was the first to be elected president by appealing to the mass of voters rather than the party elite. He established the principle that states may not disregard federal law. However, he also signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which led to the Trail of Tears.]]> 2021-02-12 15:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196790988 Black codes silvab7994 https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196800125 There were rules that people of color had to follow such as rights, contracts, Vagrancy, courts and crimes. ]]> 2021-02-12 15:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196800125 13th amendment ratified silvab7994 https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196814323 Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.]]> 2021-02-12 15:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196814323 KKK silvab7994 https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196817118 In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the “Ku Klux Klan.” The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government’s progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.


]]> 2021-02-12 15:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196817118 Civil Rights Act silvab7994 https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196825562 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared all male persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude.]]> 2021-02-12 15:17:27 UTC https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196825562 Memphis race riot silvab7994 https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196833640 The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866 in Memphis, Tennessee. The racial violence was ignited by political, social, and racial tensions following the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reconstruction.]]> 2021-02-12 15:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196833640 Reconstruction acts of 1867 silvab7994 https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196846678 The Reconstruction Acts, or Military Reconstruction Acts, were four statutes passed during the Reconstruction Era by the 40th United States Congress addressing requirement for Southern States to be readmitted to the Union]]> 2021-02-12 15:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196846678 14th amendment ratified silvab7994 https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196858942 The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed]]> 2021-02-12 15:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196858942 Southern constitutional conventions silvab7994 https://padlet.com/silvab7994/qhj617s7q22pvih6/wish/1196874156
Southern delegates to the Constitutional Convention (especially those from South Carolina and Georgia) brought this spirit of liberty with them to Philadelphia. They insisted that any federal government established by a new constitution must respect and protect their property rights.
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