Major Events of Reconstruction by Michael Lopez(ST) https://padlet.com/lopezm9451/u64qpmxxn370cttc key events that shaped the era of Reconstruction en-us 2021-02-11 15:19:11 UTC 2021-02-11 15:59:55 UTC hello@padlet.com 1863 lopezm9451 https://padlet.com/lopezm9451/u64qpmxxn370cttc/wish/1192742368
  •  January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population "henceforth shall be free."
  • December 8: President Lincoln announces the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
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  • Early 1864: President Lincoln begins Reconstruction in the Union-occupied former Confederate state of Louisiana
  • July: Congress passes its own, the Wade-Davis Bill. It ups the allegiance requirement from 10% to a majority of a state's voters
  • November 8: President Lincoln is reelected
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  • January 31: The Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery throughout the Union, wins Congressional approval and is sent to the states for ratification
  • December: President Johnson declares the reconstruction process complete
  • December: The Clerk of the House refuses to include the Southern representatives in his roll call, and they are denied their elected seats.
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  • February: President Johnson vetoes a supplemental Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which Republican moderates have designed to extend protection to Southern blacks.
  • April:the Civil Rights Bill, 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
  • May 1: Racial violence rages in Memphis

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  • September 24:  Black Friday on the New York gold exchange
  • Fall:Violence against blacks continues throughout the South
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  • Winter: Articles begin to appear in the New York Tribune, accusing black lawmakers in South Carolina of corruption.
  • April 13: The Colfax Massacre.
  • September 8: The panic of 1873 begins with the failure of a Wall Street banking firm
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