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Jim Crow enters the American cultural language
These were laws and an attiude that seperated the white and black people. They said that it everything was seperate but equal -
Abraham Lincoln announces plans for reconstuction
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ratification of the 13th amendment
This was very important becuase it made it so that slaves could not be in the United States anymore. -
wade davis bill receives pocket veto
This was done by Lincoln because he viewed the bill as too harsh on the ex Confederate people and wanted to use his plan. -
lincoln re-elected president
This was really important becuase he had a big impact on the way the country would have been run if he had been killed. -
Formation of the freedmen's bureau
the original reason why this was created was to transition slaves to free people -
assassination of abraham lincoln
This action by John Wilks Booth actually caused more problems for the south than he thought it would. -
Black codes in Mississippi
These were laws that each state made to limit the rights of black people in their states. -
Klu Klux Klan created
This was a big thing in history becuase they had many bad things to black people and their supporters -
president andrew johnson announces his plans for reconstruction
His plan was very lineint to the South and the only thing that he really required was for the south to accept the 13 admendent. -
Civil Rights (1866) Enacted
Congress again passed the bill and Jackson vetoed it but a 2/3 majority passed it. -
reconstruction acts enacted
It was necessary for former confederate states to agree to them be readmitted to the union -
president andrew johnson was impeached
This was done to try and get a radical republican in offfice so that he can better punish the south -
ratification of the 14th amendment
It made free black people citizens and other citizen's rights -
u s grant elected president
U. S Grant was a better choice for the Radical Republicans becuase he was willling to go along with punishing the south. -
ratification of the 15th amendment
This was very important to history becuase it gave black people the right to vote in the United States -
hiram revels elected to senate
This was a very important event becuase he was the first African American to hold a public goverment offfice. -
ku klux klan act enacted
This allowed the President to suspend the writ of Hapeas Courpus in cases conserning the Ku klux klan during the reconstruction era -
freedmen's bureau abolished
This was done becuase it no longer had congress backing and was critized for over supporting the Republicans -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Sometimes called enforcement act it made sure that African Americans would have equal public transportation and would be allowed on juries. -
rutherford b hayes elected president
This was very important becuase his attempts at regaining republican strength in the south and protecting southern black peoples rights failed -
the beginning of segregation in place of public service florida 1877
This was part of the idea of seperate but equal and it became part of the jim crow laws that goverened the racial interactions for many years. -
last national troops pulled from south carolina
This was basicly the end of the of the Reconstruction era and was part of the Compromise of 1877 -
civil rights act overturned 1883
the supreme court overturned the ruling saying that it is unconstitutional becuase the 13 and 14 admenment do not state that forbiding discrimination in certain public aspects is un constitiuional -
Plessy v Ferguson
Was a contriversail ruling that ruled in favor of Seperate but equal and segrigation amoungst black and white in public places
