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The Freedmen’s Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was created towards the end of the Civil War under President Lincoln's emergency war powers as part of the United States Department of War. Three ways the organization helped freedom were, the administration of justice in cases concerning the black freedmen, management of abandoned and confiscated property including the redistribution of abandoned lands to former slaves ,and support of education for freedmen. -
President Lincoln is Assassinated
Abraham Lincoln was killed by john Wilkes Booth. After his death Andrew Johnson became president. -
The 13th Amendment is Passed
The 13th amendments was made in the United States to abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Act of 1866 declared that all people born in the united states to be citizens for African Americans. -
Ku Klux Klan
The goals the Ku Klux Klan had was to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain "white supremacy. -
Military Reconstruction Acts
The congress passed the Military Reconstruction act because they wanted to punish the south and prevent ruling class from continuing in power. -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Trialaaa
The house of Representative impeach president Johnson because of high crimes and misdemeanors. 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 in his presidency. The Grant try to advance rights for African Americans by signing the landmark Civil Rights Act. -
14th Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
15th Amendment
The thing that was significant about the about the 15 Amendment was that it protects the voting rights of all citizens regardless of race or the color of their skin and the voting rights of former slaves. -
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. Also many of the changes to equal rights were immediately reversed.