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Thirteenth Amendment
was improved in january.Ratified in December. Abolished slavery in the United States -
Freedmen's Bureau
provided assistance to the emancipated slaves. -
Benjamin Butler
Union General in the Civil War and advocate of rights for African Americans, elected to Congress as a radical member of the Republican party. -
President Johnson
presents plans for Reconstruction -
Period: to
The New South
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Ku Kiuk Klan
In December of 1865, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery. That same month, a group of ex-Confederate soldiers in Tennessee met to form a secret society of white men, dedicated to resisting laws giving blacks the same rights as whitesand killed blacks by lynching. -
Fourteenth Amendment
Entitles all persons born or naturalized in the United States to citizenship and equal protection under the laws of the United States. -
new orleans race riot
On July 30, 1866, angered by the enactment of the Black Codes in Louisiana, and by the legislature's refusal to give black men the vote, the Radical Republicans in Louisiana reconvened the constitutional convention of 1864. While only twenty-five white delegates meet in New Orleans, they were joined by 200 supporters who were primarily African-American veterans from the Civil War. -
John W. Menard
elected to the United States Congress. Menard is barred from his seat by white members of Congress. When Menard pleaded his case to be seated, he became the first Black representative to speak on the floor of the House. -
Oscar J. Dunn
Former slave elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana -
Ulysses S. Grant
former union gen.becomes president. Although allied with the Radical Republicans in Congress he does not provide strong leadership for Reconstruction. -
Hiram Revels
Elected to U. S. Senate as the first black senator. -
Fiteenth Amemdent ratfied
The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave the vote to all male citizens regardless of color or previous condition of servitude. -
freedmans buearu abolished
abolished in 1872 -
Civil Rights Acts
provides blacks with equal treatment in public places and transportation -
Wade Hampton
Inaugurated as governor of South Carolina. The election of Hampton, a leader in the Confederacy, confirms fears that the South is not committed to Reconstruction.
