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Klu Klux Klan
Essic Harris woke up with Thirty Men in white robes and hoods standing around his house. Many had shot guns. -
Lincoln's Plan
Union forces advanced into Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisianna. President Lincoln appointed military governor for the regions under Union control. -
Proclamation
Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction iwas issued. He offered a general amnesty to all southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the United States and accepted the Union Proclamation concerning slavery. -
Wade-Davis Bill
The moderates and radicals had came up with a Reconstruction plan that they would both support as an alternative and introduce it as the Wade- Davis ill. The bill required the majority of the adult white men in a former Confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the union. -
Johnson's Proclamation
Johnson issued a new Proclamation of Amnesty to supplement the one Lincoln had issued earlier. He offered to pardon all former citizens of the confederacy who took an oath of loyalty to the Union. -
Freedmen's Bureau
The Bureau issued nearly 30,000 rations a day for the next year. It helped prevent mass starvation in the south. -
Johnson
Johnson's plan was well on the way. He began gathering ardons to thousands of Southerners. -
Civil Rights Act
Congressed passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The act granted citizenship to all persons born in the United Staes except Native American. -
White Mobs
White mobs killed 46 Africans American. Burned hundreds of black homes. churches, and schools. -
Klan
Klan spready rapidly throught the South in Pulaski, Tennessee. -
Freedmen's Bureau 2
Mnay freed African American served in the U.S. Cavalry in units. Most were stationed in the southwestern United State, where they became known as "Buffalo Soldiers". -
Military Act
Congressional Republicans passed the Military Reconstructional Act. It wiped out Johnson's programs and divided the former Confederacy, except Tennessee. -
Republicans
The senate vote 35 to 19 that Johnson was guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. Seven Republicans senators joined with the Democrats in refusing to convict Johnson. -
15th Amendment
Mnay states had ratified the amendment to make it part of the constitution. -
Ruplicans 2
All the states had rejoiced the Union under the congressional Reconstruction Plan. Throughout the south, the Republican party took power and introduced several major reforms. -
Schools
Some 4,000 schools and 9,000 teachers taught 200,00 formerly enslaved people of all ages. Reconstructional government built a comprehesive public school system. -
Enforcement Act
Congressed passed three Enfoecement Act to combat the violence in the south. The first act made it a federal crime to interfere with a citizens right to vote. -
Horace
The Liberal Republicans tried to prevent Grant from being nominated for a second term. When that failed, they left the Rupublican Party in 1872 and nominated their own candidate, Horace Greeley, the influential newspaper publisher. -
Panic of 1873
The Panic of 1873 quickly spread through the nation's finacial community. The panic prompted scores of smaller banks to close and the stock market to plummet. -
Elections
Midterm elections, the Democrats won control of the House of Representives and made gains int he Senate. These newly elected Democrats immediately launched investigations into the scandal, further embarrassing Grant and the Republicans. -
Scandal
The Whiskey Ring scandal broke. A grouop of government officials and distillers in St. Louis cheated the government out of millions of dollars by filing false reports. -
Democrats
The Democrats had taken control of all southern state legislatives except these those of Lousinianna, South Carolina, and Florida. In those states, the large number of African American voters, protected by troops, were able to keep the Rublicans in power. -
Moving
President Hayes expressed his desire to move the country beyond the quarrelsome years of Reconstruction, in part by putting an end to the nations regional distinctions. -
Hayes
Hayes pulled federal troops out of the South. Without soldiers to support them, the two remained Republican governments in South Carolina and Lousina quickly collapsed. -
Railroad
Almost 40,000 miles of railroad track crisscrossed the South nearly four times the amount there was in 1860s Southern Industry grew.
