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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconsturction
In December 1863 Lincoln came up with a amnesty, instead of punishing the south for treason. issued all southerners who took a oath of loyalty to the north. -
Wade Davis Bill
The Wade Davis bill was a bill made by the morderates reconstruction plan to help both sides of the U.S. This Bill required the majority of the white men to take a oath under the union. -
Lincoln Assassination
Lincoln was killed in April 1865. The assassination was planned and carried out by the well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, as part of a larger conspiracy in a bid to revive the Confederate cause.Lincoln was shot while watching the play Our American Cousin with his wife Mary Todd Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on the night of April 14, 1865. He died early the next morning. -
Freedmans Bureau
It was created by the congress, they made a bureau to help Refugees, freedmen, and Abandoned land. It was giving the task of feeding and clothing war refugess in the south. It also worked with many North charities to help educate former slaves. -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment was passed by congress in March 1866. It granted citizenship to anyone born or natuarlized in the U.S and also stated that no one could be deprived of Life, Liberty, or Property. -
KKK formed
The KKK was racist organization formed in 1866. They committed crimes against blacks and other races. -
Election of 1866
the disenfranchisement of Southern Whites, the Republicans used the freedmen and their own numbers to size control of The Southern States, and proceed with their plans for reconstruction. -
Reconstruction Act
After the end of the confederate civil war, as part of the on-going process of Reconstruction, the United States Congress passed four statutes known as Reconstruction Acts. Fulfillment of the requirements of the Acts were necessary for the former Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union. -
Military Reconstruction
After the end of the confederate civil war, as part of the on-going process of Reconstruction, the United States Congress passed four statutes known as Reconstruction Acts. Fulfillment of the requirements of the Acts were necessary for the former Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union. The Acts excluded Texas, which had already ratified the 13th amendment and had been readmitted to the Union -
Impeachment of President Johnson
Johnson was impeached on February 24, 1868 in the U.S. House of Representatives on eleven articles of impeachment detailing his "high crimes and misdemeanors",[1] in accordance with Article Two of the United States Constitution. The House's primary charge against Johnson was with violation of the Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress -
15th Amendment Ratified
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century. -
The great administration
The Enforcement Acts in the United States were four acts passed from 1870 to 1871 that were meant to protect rights of all blacks following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as part of Reconstruction, which entitled freedmen and all others born in the United States to full citizenship -
KKK act Passed
The Civil Rights Act of 1871, 17 Stat. 13, enacted April 20, 1871, is a federal law in force in the United States. The Act was originally enacted a few years after the American Civil War, along with the 1870 Force Act. One of the chief reasons for its passage was to protect southern blacks from the Ku Klux Klan by providing a civil remedy for abuses then being committed in the South. The statute has been subject to only minor changes since then, but has been the subject of voluminous interpretat -
Grant Reelected
In the United States presidential election of 1872, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant was easily elected to a second term in office with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate, despite a split within the Republican Party that resulted in a defection of many Liberal Republicans to opponent Horace Greeley. -
The Panic of 1873
The Panic of 1873 triggered a severe international economic depression in both Europe and the United States that lasted until 1879, and even longer in some countries. The depression was known as the Great Depression until the 1930s, but is now known as the Long Depression -
Jay Cooke Bankruptcy
Cooke & Company wrote liabilities against expected returns from the sale of its Northern Pacific Railroad bonds, but ultimately could not sell enough bonds to meet its obligations. A run on the Jay Cooke & Company bank ensued, and its operations were suspended. When the New York Stock Exchange heard the announcement, equities plummeted, causing a chain reaction of bank runs and failures throughout the United States that signaled the arrival of the Panic of 1873 to American shores -
Whisky Ring
n the United States, the Whiskey Ring was a scandal, exposed in 1875, involving diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors. The Whiskey Ring began in St. Louis but was also organized in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Peoria.Before they were caught, a group of mostly Republican politicians were able to siphon off millions of dollars in federal taxes on liquor; the scheme involved an extensive network of br -
Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 refers to a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election, regarded as the second "corrupt bargain", and ended Congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction. Through it, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops whose support was essential for the survival of Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Lou -
1st Black elected
African Americans began serving in greater numbers in the United States Congress during the Reconstruction Era following the American Civil War after slaves were emancipated and granted citizenship rights. Freedmen gained political representation in the Southern United States for the first time. The Compromise of 1877 initiated the period that followed, known as Redemption among white southerners. Conservative, mostly white Democrats regained political power in state legislatures across the Sout
