Evelins U.S Reconstruction and Race Timeline

By Evelin1025

  • Black code

    Legeslatures in southern America passed laws called the, "black code" These laws were created in the hope that they could control the newly freed African Americans. Some, sparsly mixed others, made it illegal for African Americans to own and rent farmland. These laws make it easy for white employers to take advantage of many African American peoples. With these strict laws, some found it vaguely better than slavery.

  • Civil rights act of 1866

    To go against the black codes, the civil rights was a law that gave federal government power to intervien in state affairs to protect African Americans' rights. This law also gave African Americans' citicenship in the U.S. In the end, Presidents Johnson vetoed both this bill and the black codes, but was overriden by the congress. This made the Civil rights act a newly passed law.

  • Reconstruction act 1

    Due to the 14th Amendment being withheld, congress passed the first reconstruction act. This law required that former confederate states chose to form new governments. At the time, only Tennessee had ratified. 10 of the defiant states were divided into five military districts. Former confederate leaders were banned from enrolling into a government position. Not only would each state create a new constitution, but African American males had the right to vote in state elections.

  • Reconstruction act 2

    In addition to the first reconstruction act, another was admitted. This allowed the army to register voters in every part of the state to organize state constitutional conventions.

  • The 14th Amendment

    Congress woried that the Civil Rights act would be overturned, so they created an amendment to the constitution which ratified in 1868, stating that all persons born or naturalixed in the U.S.A and subject to jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States. This amendment protected the citizenship of African Americans. Along with this, the amendment stated that state could not take a persons life, liberty, or property without the due process of law.

  • 15th Amendment

    After the presidential election of Ulysses S. Grant, Congress took one last step to ensure the saftey of African Americans.The 15th amendment stated that state and federal government could nt deny and mans right to vote meerly based on race and color.