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Reconstrution

  • 1865

    Reconstruction had started
  • 1866

    Civil Rights Act. It provided blacks with the same legal rights as whites.
  • 1867

    Congress passed the first of several Reconstruction Acts.
  • 1868

    Johnson didn't run for another term, democrats former New York governor Horatio Seymour as their presidential candidate
  • 1869

    More than 150,000 blacks attended more than 3,000 schools.
  • 1871

    Unification of Germany is completed.
  • 1872

    Grant is elected president.
  • 1873

    Economic depression
  • 1877

    Reconstruction ends