Ch. 17

By sbollenbacher

  • 1865

    1865
    Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

  • 1868

    President Andrew Johnson is impeached and almost removed from office

  • 1869

    1869
    Indiana becomes the 14th state to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment

  • 1870

    1870
    Hiram Revels becomes the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.

  • 1877

    The Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction.