Reconstruction by Eyana Kabia(ST)

1865 Freedman's Bureau

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-Provides assistance to emancipated African Americans.

-Abolished in 1872.

1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

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-The original plan was not to kill Lincoln but to kidnap him.

-He was shot while watching a play at the Ford's Theater.

1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president

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-Johnson was impeached in 1868.

-Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes president the next morning after Lincoln's death.

1865 First Black Codes passed

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-Southern states enact laws restricting rights of African Americans.

-The laws were intended to control economic, political, and social freedom.

1866 13th Amendment is ratified

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-It was ratified on December 6, 1865

-The amendment was to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude in the U.S.

1866 KKK is formed

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-A secret organization to intimidate African Americans and restore white rule is founded in Pulaski, Tennessee.

-The group's primary goal was to restore white supremacy in the South.

Civil Rights Act of 1866

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-The law granted all persons born in the U.S. (except American Indians) full citizenship and the equal benefit of all laws.

-It was the first United States federal law.

1866 Memphis Race Riot

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-White civilians and police kill 46 African Americans and destroy 90 houses, schools, and four churches in Memphis, Tennessee.

-The mob murdered 46 African Americans.

1867 Reconstruction Act

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-Congress divides the former Confederacy into five military districts and requires elections in which African American men can vote.

-President Andrew Johnson vetoed the Reconstruction Act, but it was still passed by congress.

1868 14th Amendment is ratified

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-The amendment was ratified on July 9th, 1868.

-Guarantees due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans.

1867-68 Southern constitutional conventions including freedman

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-These conventions, held across the former Confederate states, were instrumental in dismantling the discriminatory Black Codes and setting the stage for readmission to the Union

-Freedmen participated as delegates for the first time, wielding significant political power to advocate for civil rights and educational opportunities.

1870 15th Amendment is ratified

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-Extends the vote to all male citizens regardless of racer or previous condition of servitude.

-It is was ratified February 3rd, 1870.

1870 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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-It was a strategy of systematic and organized violence, fraud, and intimidation used by white Democrats.

-The plan was a significant part of the "Redemption" movement, in which white Southerners sought to dismantle the gains of the Reconstruction era.

Compromise of 1877

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-The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.

-One specific point of the compromise was no interference from the North regarding the Southern states treatment of African Americans.