Reconstruction

Amnesty to Southerners

Dec 8, 1863

President Lincoln offered pardon to Southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the United States

Wade-Davis Bill

Jun 1, 1864

requried majority of adult white males in former Confederate state to take oath of allegiance to the Union

Freeedmens Bureau Founded

Mar 3, 1865

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, Abandoned Lands

Johnson Becomes President

Apr 15, 1865

Johnson Becomes President after Lincoln is assassinated

Ku Klux Klan

Dec 24, 1865

KKK formed in Tennessee

14th Amendment

Jul 9, 1868

14th Amendment adopted to the Constitution

Howard University Law Opens

Jan 6, 1869

Howard University opens first law school for African Americans

Public School System in South

Jan 1, 1870

Public School System was created in the south in 1870

Enforcement Act

Jan 1, 1870

Enforcement Acts passed to combat violence in South

Confederate States Join Union

Jul 15, 1870

the last confederate state, Georgia, joins the union

Panic Of 1873

Jan 1, 1873

Stock Market plummeted and Dozens of banks closed

Whiskey Ring Scandal

Jan 1, 1875

Politicians and distillers cheated government of millions of dollars

Compromise of 1877

Jan 1, 1877

Outcome of corrupt election of 1876

Hayes Inaugurated

Mar 5, 1877

Hayes elected after Compromise of 1877

Federal troops pull out of south

Apr 1, 1877

Ended reconstruction