Reconstruction

  • Jim Crow enters American cultural language

  • Abraham Lincoln Announces Plans for reconstruction

  • Wade-Davis Bill Receives Pocket Veto

  • Lincoln Re-Elected President

  • Black Codes created in Mississippi

  • Formation of Freedmans Burearu

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • President Andrew Johnson Announces Plans for Reconstruction

  • Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment

  • Ku Klux Klan created

  • Cicil Rights Act (1866) Enacted

  • Reconstruction Acts Enacted

  • President Andrew Johnson Impeached

  • Ratification of the fourteenth Amendment

  • Ulysses S. Grant elected President

  • Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment

  • Hiram Revels elected to Senate

  • Ku Klux Klan Act Enacted

  • Freedman's Bureau Abolished

  • Civil Rights Act (1875) passed

  • Last National Troops Leave South Carolina

  • Rutherford B. Hayes elected President

  • Civil Rights Act Overturned (1883)

  • Florida Requires Segregation in Places of Public Accommodation

  • Case of Plessey v. Ferguson