Reconstruction

By snowynkeim

  • Wartime reconstruction

    Emancipation Proclamation

  • Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

    Con. had to swear oath to be pardoned.
    10% of state pop. pledge allegiance to Union, would become state again
    Make slavery illegal

  • Lincoln

    Lincoln was assassinated / black Jamaicans rebel against the wealthy planter class.

  • Special Field Order 15

    General Sherman meets with twenty black leaders in Savannah, Georgia to determine the needs of former slaves. Days later, Sherman issues Field Order 15; redistribute confiscated land in forty-acre parcels to blacks in Florida and on islands off Georgia and South Carolina.

  • TRhe Freedman's Burearu

    The Bureau was created a month before the war ended to provide food, clothing, and medicine to freed people. The Bureau also established schools as well as the Freedmen's Bank.

  • 13th Amendment Ratified

    Despite President Johnson's attempts to veto legislation of the Republican Congress and restore white supremacy, the 13th Amendment was ratified. This required southern states to abolish slavery before rejoining the Union.

  • Johnson's Plan

    Following Lincolns assassination, Vice President, Andrew Johnson, became president and pardoned thousands of Confederate Leaders
    1. Pardon Confederate leaders and allow them to claim land given to freed people
    2. Vetoing legislation designed to grant and protect African Americans' civil liberties.
    3. Rallying of conservatives to change the social order in the South.

  • Opposition from white supremacists

    After the passing of the 1866 Civil Rights Acts, many white supremacists became outraged and set out to terrorize black citizens by committing horrible acts such as harassment, beatings, and lynchings. They called themselves the Ku Klux Klan. They do not only target citizens but white citizens who fought for the rights of black citizens.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    As Northerners began to realize that President Johnson could not be trusted to reconstruct the Union, they turned to the Republican party which swept the 1866 congressional elections. The Republicans now controlled the House and Senate. A major legislation passed was the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which granted citizenship to blacks and safegaurded their civil liberties.

  • Tenure of Office Act

    The Tenure of Office Act- Several bills were passed in 1867 to limit Johnson's power. The Tenure of Office Act sought to protect Republicans within the Johnson Administration by forbidding their dismissal without congressional authorization.

  • Reconstruction Acts

    First Reconstruction Act - this bill reduced the secessionist states claim to conquered territories. Congress carved the South into five military districts, which were each governed by a General Union in charge of the Reconstruction process. Second Reconstruction Act- To safeguard black voting rights, Republicans passed this act, placing Union troops in charge of voter registration.

  • 14th amendment

    The Fourteenth Amendment is ratified. The Amendment safeguards blacks' citizenship rights and reduced congressional representation of states that denied black males voting rights.

  • Grant's Presidency

    The 1868 presidential election saw Republicans nominate Grant. Grant proved himself as an effective leader in the army. He also acted as a reminder that it was the Republicans who won the war.

  • 15th amendment

    In 1869, Republicans passed the fifteenth amendment to guarantee that all evils had the right to vote. Republicans also made ratification to require for all southern states still awaiting readmission.

  • KKK

    To combat the rise of racial violence spurred by the newly formed Ku Klux Klan, Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan act. This allowed Congress to act against the Klan and other similar terrorist organizations. This is also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

  • Election of 1872

    In 1872 the Republican party split when a significant number of Republicans broke from the radicals to form their own Liberal Republican faction. Despite the name, Liberal Republicans disliked big government and preferred limited government involvement in the economy. President Grant ultimately won reelection, but the damage within his party was already done.

  • Civil Rights act of 1875

    Republicans managed to pass one final piece of radical legislation through Congress in the form of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. This legislation aimed at eliminate social discrimination and make true equality for black Americans by saying discrimination is illegal, blacks would have same legal rights, and blacks could sue in courts.

  • The compromise of 1877

    The south didn't like the outcome of the election, so they said they would agree with it if federal troops were sent back to the union from the south and they get funding for improvements in the south. The north agreed.