Reconstruction Era by Zymir Carmichael(ST) https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3 Made with whimsy en-us 2021-02-11 18:04:27 UTC 2024-05-17 18:24:17 UTC hello@padlet.com 1865- The Freedmen's Bureau was established carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1194034786
  •   Helped Former slaves acquire Jobs, Land, Medical Care, education 

    • Some  180,000 Blacks have served in the union Army, over one fifth of the adult male black population under 45.
    ]]>     2021-02-11 18:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1194034786     April 15, 1865- President Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198751580
  •  His last speech mentions black suffrage for soldiers. 

    •  The Civil war ends when Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant.  
    ]]>     2021-02-13 03:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198751580     April 15,1865- Vice President Andrew Johnson takes office carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198761650
  •  In May Johnson declares that they and the confederate leadership will be required to petition him individually for pardons. 

    •  Neither adopted abolitionist ideals nor challenged racist sentiments.
    ]]>     2021-02-13 03:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198761650     November 22nd, 1865- Black Codes are Passed carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198768319
  • Unemployed black can be seized and auctioned to planters as a laborers. 
  • Prohibited from work except as field hands.
    • ]]>     2021-02-13 03:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198768319     1865-13th Amendment is Ratified carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198771165
  • The Union Army is quickly demobilized. 
  •   Southern towns and cities start to experience a large influx of Freedmen. 
    • ]]>     2021-02-13 03:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198771165     1865-The KKK is formed and is in every southern state by the 1870's. carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198776741
  •  The organization of the KKK coincided with the beginning of the second phase of post Civil War reconstruction. 
  •  local law enforcement officials either belonged to the Klan or declined to take action against it.

    • ]]>     2021-02-13 03:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198776741     Civil Rights Act of 1866 carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198781697
  • granted citizenship to all persons “born or naturalized in the United States,”   
  •  Abolished Slavery, protected the rights of Black Americans. 
    • ]]>     2021-02-13 04:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198781697     Memphis Riot of 1866 carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198786584
  •  The Riot began when a white police officer attempted to arrest a black ex-soldier. 

    • Within a month a congressional committee arrived to investigate the riot. 
    ]]>     2021-02-13 04:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198786584     Reconstruction Acts of 1867- The Tenure of Office Act (1867-1887) carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198788309
  •   It was used as the legal premise for impeaching President Andrew Johnson. 

    • Strengthened the power of the Executive branch of the U.S. government. 
    ]]>     2021-02-13 04:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198788309     1868-14th Amendment is Ratified carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198791700
  •  It would become the basis for many landmark supreme court Decisions over the years.  

    •  "Equal protection of the laws" 
    ]]>     2021-02-13 04:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198791700     Southern constitutional conventions including freedman carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198796314
  • Black and white Americans stood side by side for the first time in political life. 

    • The era was to a great extent defined by their quest for autonomy and equal rights under the law. 
    ]]>     2021-02-13 04:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198796314     1870-15th Amendment is Ratified carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198799364
  • Granted African American men the  right to vote. 

    •  By the late 1870s discriminatory practices were used to prevent blacks from exercising their right to vote. 
    ]]>     2021-02-13 04:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198799364     Mississippi Plan carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198802520
  •   They were technically applied to everyone, but targeted African Americans.

    •  This was a loophole around the 15th Amendment. 
    ]]>     2021-02-13 04:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198802520     Compromise of 1877 carmichaelz9497 https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198803675 -   Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated President  
    - Reconstruction Ends ]]>     2021-02-13 04:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/carmichaelz9497/ybfwbjilbixnqqy3/wish/1198803675