Ethan Harper's Race and Reconstruction Timeline

By E_Harper1234

  • Black Codes

    Black Codes
    The Black Codes law was make to help control the newly Freed slaves. It make the lives of African American's Hard if they didn't have a job they could have been arrest. This bill/law make it harder for the African American's to rent house or farms. This law mainly make it easier for white men to take advantage of them. This was right after slavery.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Civil Rights Act of 1866
    This law gave the federal government power to get involed in state affairs to protect African Americans' Rights. It also granted citizenship to the African Americans. President Johnson vetoed both this bill because he thought the federal government was exceeding its authority. The Republicans in congress overide President Johnson and defeated both of Johnsons veto's.

  • Reconstruction Acts

    Reconstruction Acts
    This law requires that those states form new governments.This Act guaranteed African American men the right to vote in state in state elections. A Second Act was created empowered the army to register voters in each in each district and to help organize state constitutional conventions. A lot of white southnerns didn't like this act. They resufed to obey this act/law.

  • The Fourteeth Amendment

    The Fourteeth Amendment
    Congress didn't worry that the court might overturn the Civil Rights Act. The Fourteeth Amendment had endend slavery. The Fourteenth Amendment African Americans by the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The Amendment made it clear that if a barred any adult male citizen from voting, that state could lose some representation in congress. This is for the help of African Americans.

  • The Fifteenth Amendment

    The Fifteenth Amendment
    The Amendment guarenteed that state and federal governments could not deny the right to vote to any male citizen because of "Race, color, or previous condition of servitude." The states ratified this in 1870, Republicans thought their job was largly done. They believed they had suceed in giving African American men the Right to vote. They also thought that the power of the vote would allow African Americans to better protect themselves against unfair treatment by white people.but to Opitmistic.