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Robert E Lee surrenders
General Lee Surrendered to General Grant at the Appomattox court house -
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
The 16th President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford Theater by John Wilkes Booth. -
13th Amendment Ratified
The 13th Amendment is ratified -
Memphis Street Riots
Whits rioted and killed 46 African Americans and destroyed 90 buildings -
Wade Hampton inaugurated as governor
The election of Hampton a leader in the Confederacy confirms fears that the South is not committed to Reconstruction -
Disputed Presidential election
Republicans challenged the validity of the voting in South Carolina Florida and Louisiana. -
President Johnsons Impeachment Trial
President Johnson was getting impeached for crimes -
First African Senator is elected
The first African American senator is elected -
Fifteenth Amendment ratified
vote to all male citizens regardless of racer or previous condition of servitude -
Ku Klux Klan is made
White supremacist group started in Tennessee.