President Lincoln announces the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. It offers pardon and restoration of property

usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. government agency of early post-American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South

As a War Democrat, Johnson, Lincoln's 1864 running mate, took over the presidency just as the Civil War was ending and was tasked with guiding the nation through Reconstruction

This amendment prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes, protecting an individual's right to privacy and property.

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to KKK or Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group.

It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group

The United States' first civil rights legislation, enacted over President Andrew Johnson's veto

declaring all persons born in the U.S. to be citizens and establishing rights to property, contracts, and court protection

The massacre was a pivotal event in the Reconstruction era, revealing the intense racial tensions and white resistance to Black freedom in the post-Civil War South. 

a series of laws passed by the U.S. Congress that divided the former Confederate states into military districts under martial law

demanding they adopt new constitutions granting voting rights to Black men and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to be readmitted to the Union

Southern constitutional conventions, occurring under Congressional Reconstruction Acts

included significant participation from freedmen (Black men and women) and resulted in new state constitutions

citizenship and prohibiting states from denying any person within their jurisdiction the rights to life, liberty, and property without due process of law or equal protection of the laws. 

This amendment prohibits states from denying any citizen the right to vote on account of "race, color

previous condition of servitude," effectively granting suffrage to African American men after the Civil War.  

The Mississippi Plan, also known as the "Shotgun Policy," was a campaign of organized violence, intimidation, and fraud used by white Southern Democrats

in 1875 to regain political control of Mississippi from Republicans and effectively end Reconstruction in the state.

The Compromise of 1877, also known as the Wormley Agreement.

The Tilden-Hayes Compromise, the Bargain of 1877, or the Corrupt Bargain, was a speculated unwritten political deal in the United States