Reconstruction

By hantrump

  • 1865

    1865
    When reconstruction started

  • 1866

    1866
    Civil Rights Act- provided African Americans with the same legal rights as whites/ Ku Klux Klan was created

  • 1867

    1867
    Congress passed the first of several Reconstruction Acts

  • 1868

    1868
    Johnson didn't run for another term; democrats former New York governor Horatio Seymour as their presidential candidate

  • 1869

    1869
    Congress proposed the Fifteenth Amendment/ Grant became president

  • 1870

    1870
    The Fifteenth Amendment went into effect as one of the last Reconstruction laws passed at the federal level

  • 1872

    1872
    The General Amnesty Act allowed former Confederate to serve in public office/ Grant was re-elected

  • 1873

    1873
    Panic of 1873 happened/ severe economic downturn began when Jay Cooke declared bankrupty

  • 1874

    1874
    The Democrats gained control of the House of Representatives

  • 1875

    1875
    The Civil Rights Act of 1875 guaranteed African Americans equal rights in public places

  • 1876

    1876
    unemployment had risen to 14 percent, with an estimated 2 million people out of work

  • 1877

    1877
    The Compromise of 1877, the Democrats agreed to accept Hayes victory. In return, they wanted all remaining federal troops removed from the South/ President Hayes removed the last of the federal troops from the South

  • 1883

    1883
    the U.S Supreme Court ruled that Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional

  • 1896

    1896
    the U.S Supreme Court returned to the issue of segregation