Civil War Reconstruction

By hbehling

  • 1865

    1865
    Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.

  • 1868

    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
    Hirem Revels becomes the first African-American to serve in the U.S. Senate.

  • 1877

    1877
    The compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction