Timeline by Brianna Stoss https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e en-us 2020-09-25 12:19:03 UTC 2020-09-25 13:14:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f47d.png March 3, 1865 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778930995 Freedmen’s Bureau-works to smooth the transition from slavery, providing former slaves with immediate shelter and medical services.

]]> 2020-09-25 12:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778930995 April 15, 1865 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778940521 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated-In Lincoln's last speech, he mentions black suffrage for soldiers and some others. The Civil War ends when Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union general. Six days later he is assassinated.]]> 2020-09-25 12:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778940521 April 15, 1865 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778947870 Andrew Johnson becomes president-his plan of Presidential Reconstruction. It calls for general amnesty and restoration of property -- except for slaves -- to all Southerners who will swear loyalty to the Union. 

]]> 2020-09-25 12:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778947870 Fall 1865 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778955035 Black Codes- to re-establish white supremacy. The laws impose restrictions on black citizens, especially in attempts to control labor: freedmen are prohibited from work except as field hands, blacks refusing to sign labor contracts can be punished.]]> 2020-09-25 12:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778955035 Dec 6, 1865 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778964370 13th Amendment is ratified-Abolishes slavery in the United States.


]]> 2020-09-25 12:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778964370 Dec 24, 1865 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778970213 KKK is formed-A white hate group, acted violently towards African Americans along with other minorities.]]> 2020-09-25 12:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778970213 April, 1866 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778989015 Civil Rights Act of 1866-grants citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."]]> 2020-09-25 12:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778989015 May 1, 1866 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778992684 Memphis Race Riot- for three days as whites assault blacks on the streets. In the aftermath, 48 people, nearly all black, are dead, and hundreds of black homes, churches, and schools have been pillaged or burned.

]]> 2020-09-25 12:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778992684 March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778997996 Reconstruction Acts of 1867- Known as Radical Reconstruction, the new policies divide the South into military districts and require the states to adopt new constitutions, introduce black suffrage, and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.]]> 2020-09-25 12:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/778997996 July 28, 1868 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/779006283 14th Amendment is ratified-Guarantees due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans

]]> 2020-09-25 12:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/779006283 Winter 1868 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/779011043 Southern Constitutional Conventions-Black and white lawmakers begin to work side by side in the Southern states' constitutional conventions, the first political meetings in American history to include substantial numbers of black men.

]]> 2020-09-25 13:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/779011043 February 3, 1870 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/779015591 15th Amendment is ratified-prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."]]> 2020-09-25 13:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/779015591 1875 stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/779026359 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”-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.

]]> 2020-09-25 13:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/779026359 After the 1876 election stossb9044 https://padlet.com/stossb9044/sewsoat2w0kzss5e/wish/779060504 Compromise of 1877-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.

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