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The Thirteenth Ammendment
The 13th Ammendment officially ended slavery in the entire US. -
Growth of the Ku Klux Klan
A secret, yet soon to become infamous, group has started to meet in Pulaski, Tennessee. Their goal was to intimidate the black voters to not vote. -
First Former Confederate State Joins the Union.
Tennesee becomes the first former Confederate state to join the Union. -
Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
The act divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts. By 1868, six former Confederate states had been reinstated into the Union. -
The Almost Impeachment of President Johnson
The Senate voted 35 to 19 to try convict the president with a charge of refusing the Tenure of Office Act. He was one vote short of actually being impeached. -
The Fourteenth Amendment
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. In addition, it forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” -
Election of Ulysses S. Grant
The United States presidential election of 1868 was the first presidential election to take place after the American Civil War, during the period referred to as Reconstruction. Three of the former Confederate states (Texas, Mississippi, and Virginia) were not yet restored to the Union and therefore could not vote in the election. -
The Fifteenth Ammendment
This ammendment declares that the right to vote shall not be denied by any pretense. -
Last Confederate State is in the Union
Texas agrees to becoming part of the Union once again. -
Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
Under the Klan Act during Reconstruction, federal troops were used rather than state militias to enforce the law, and Klansmen were prosecuted in federal court, where juries were often predominantly black. Hundreds of Klan members were fined or imprisoned, and habeas corpus was suspended in nine counties in South Carolina. -
The Panic of 1873
Jay Cooke and Company, a large and respected banking house declares itself bankrupt, and announces its failure on September 18, 1873 -
Whiskey Ring
A group of distillers and public officials defrauded the federal government of liquor taxes. -
The Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 occurred after the Presidential Election of 1876, when Congress formed the Electoral Commission to resolve disputed Democratic Electoral votes from the South. -
Spelman College Opens its Doors.
Spelman College was the first African-American College to offer services to African-American women.
