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The Freedmen’s Bureau
the Freedmen's Bureau, was an important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South, and provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance -
President Lincoln is Assassinated
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln,Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln assassination. -
The 13th Amendment is Passed
The Thirteenth Amendment made slavery illegal in the United States. It was adopted as part of the Constitution on December 6, 1865 -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens -
Ku Klux Klan
The goal of the original Ku Klux Klan was to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain "white supremacy." -
Military Reconstruction Acts.
They wanted to punish the South, and to prevent the ruling class from continuing in power. -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Trial
the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States resolved to impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors. President Andrew Johnson had to answer 12 articles of Impeachment and was acquitted in the Senate by one vote less than the two-thirds necessary to remove him and was allowed to continue his term of office. -
Election of Ulysses S. Grant
The unprecedented way that Grant ran his cabinet, in a military-style rather than civilian, contributed to the scandals. Grant signed the landmark Civil Rights Act, ending separation in public accommodations and more. -
14th Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment is an amendment to the United States Constitution that was adopted in 1868. It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War -
15th Amendment
government claims everyone can vote -
Reconstruction Ends
The Compromise of 1877, when the U.S. government pulled the last of its troops from southern states, ending the Reconstruction era