Eduardos timeline

By Eduardo Martinez

  • Emancipation proclamation issued

    Frees slaves in sates in rebellion and authorizes the enlistment of black troops.
  • Period: to

    A visual timeline of reconstrucrtion

  • Reelection of lincoln

    Lincoln is reelected president

  • The Freedmen's Bureau established

    Provides assistance to emancipted Africn Americans. Abolished in 1872.

  • Lee surrenders

    Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at appomatox court house . Joseph E. Johnston's surrender in North Carolina on April 18 effectively ends the CIvil War.

  • Reconstruction

    Lincoln calls for Reconstruction of the country

  • Death of lincoln

    lincoln is assasinated

  • President Abraham Lincoln assasinated

    Vice president Andrew Johnson Becomes president

  • 13th Amendment ratified

    Abolishes slavery in the united states

  • Black codes enacted

    Southern states enact laws restricting of african americans

  • Civil Rights act of 1866

    confers citizenship on Afircan Americans and guarentees equal rights.

  • Memphis race riot (1-3)

    white civilans and police kill 46 African americans and destroy 90 houses, schools, and four churches in Memphis, tennesse.

  • Reconstruction acts

    Congress divides the former confedaeracy into five military districs and requirs elections in which Afrian American me can vote.

  • Fourteenth Amendment ratified

    Guarentees due process and equal protection under the law to african americans,

  • Fist black senator eected

    Hiram Revels of Mississippi elected to U.S senate as the first black senator

  • Civil rights act of 1875 enacted by congress

    guarentees equal rights to african americans in public accomodations and jury service. Ruled unconstitutional in 1883.

  • Reconstructiion ends

    President Rutheford Hayes withdraws federal troops from the south protectin the civil rights of african americans.