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Wade-Davis Bill Passed
This bill required the majority of the adult white males in a former Confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the Union. -
Freedmen's Bureau
Feed and clothed the war refugees in the South using surplus army supplies. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States except Native Americans. -
Howard University
It is in Washington D.C. and was founded by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to establish a seminary for African American ministers. -
Fourteenth Amendment
Granted Citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and declared that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property "withoutdue process of law." -
Fifteenth Amendement
Declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied... on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Hiram Revels
Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce were among the first African Americans to be elected to the Senate. While many other African Americans were in the House of Representatives. -
All Former Confederate states are rejoined to the Union
the Reconstruction plan called for all states to rejoin. By late 1870 all were part of the Union. Georgia is the last state to that needed to rejoin. -
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan act was passed saying that the activities of the Klan were outlawed. -
Election of 1872
Grant won the election against Horace Greeley who was the candidate for the Liberal Republicans and Democrats -
Panic of 1873
Dozen of smaller banks closed, and stock market plummeted. Thousands of businesses shut down, and the unemployment levels soared beyond belief. -
Whiskey Ring Trials
A group of government officials and distillers in St. Louis, Missouri, cheated the government out of millions of dollars by filing false tax reports. -
Compromise of 1877
It was negotiated on February 26, 1877. This reportly included a promise by the Republicans to pull federal troops out of the South if Hayes were elected, and in a few months it did happen. -
Spelman College
It was the first college for African American women. -
"The New South"
Henry W. Grady wrote the speech. They believed the region had to develop a strong industrial economy.
