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1865 BCE
The Freedmen’s Bureau.
The Freedmen's Bureau was a federal agency established on March 3, 1865 just before the end of the Civil War, during the Reconstruction Era.
The Freedmen's Bureau was supported by President Abraham Lincoln, moderate Republicans in Congress and members of the Abolitionist Movement. -
President Lincoln is Assassinated.
President Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth. With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views. -
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.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866.
The Black Codes were laws that were introduced in the Southern States restricting black people's freedom and many Civil Rights preventing ex-slaves (Freedmen) to vote or serve on juries, requiring permission to travel, enforcing harsh labor laws, placing orphans placed into forced apprenticeships and unequal laws and harsh punishments. -
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.
To understand the emergence of the original Ku Klux Klan and its history it is necessary to understand the differences between the North and the South. -
Military Reconstruction Acts.
They wanted to punish the South, and to prevent the ruling class from continuing in power. They passed the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867, which divided the South into five military districts and outlined how the new governments would be designed.
The period of PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION lasted from 1865 to 1867. -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Trial.
The primary charge against Johnson was that he had violated the Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress in March 1867 over Johnson's veto. Specifically, he had removed from office Edwin Stanton, the secretary of war whom the act was largely designed to protect. -
14th Amendment.
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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. -
Election of Ulysses S. Grant.
Grant was influenced by both political forces of reform and corruption. ... In 1872, Senator Charles Sumner, labeled corruption in the Grant administration "Grantism".
In 1875, Grant signed the landmark Civil Rights Act, ending separation in public accommodations and more. (This legislation was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.) -
15th Amendment.
The Fifteenth Amendment protects the voting rights of all citizens regardless of race or the color of their skin. It also protected the voting rights of former slaves. It was ratified on February 3, 1870.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was put into place to make sure that no citizen was denied the right to vote. It is described as an "act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution. -
Reconstruction Ends.
The Reconstruction officially ended under the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877. He removed the federal troops from the South and the state governments took over. Unfortunately, many of the changes to equal rights were immediately reversed. The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.