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Reconstruction

By HunterKoehler

  • Assasination of Lincoln

    Assasination of Lincoln
    President Lincoln was assasinated in Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, and that left the plan of reconstruction to his successor, Andrew Johnson. His views of the process were completely different form Licnoln, Johnson wanted to punish the South for leaving.

  • Johnson Makes his own Plan

    Johnson announces that each remaining Confederate state could be readmitted to the Union if they each withdraw secession, swear allegiance to the Union, annul Confederate war debts, and ratify the 13th amendment abolishing slavery.

  • Freedmen's Bureau Acts

    Freedmen's Bureau Acts
    Offered assistance, such as medical aid and education, to freed slaves and war refugees

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Gave African Americans citizenship and the right to vote,and it forbade the passing of dicrimatory laws. This tried to counterract the "black codes" that states in the SOuth were passing. This is important because the government is trying to help support freed slaves while the states are still trying to oppress them.

  • Reconstruction Act of 1867

    Reconstruction Act of 1867
    It abolished governments formed in the former Confederate states; divided those states into five military districts; and set up requirements for readmission to the Union. It's important because it laid the rules for getting back into the Union.

  • Fourteenth Amendment

    Fourteenth Amendment
    This provided a constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act. It also tried to counterract racism. It lays the basis for equal treatment of races.

  • Enforcement Act of 1870

    Enforcement Act of 1870
    This protected the voting rights of African Americans. It also gave the governement power to enforce the 15th Amendment. It was trying to protect the rights of African Americans, but instead sparked the more involvement of the Ku Klux Klan.
    There is no exact date provided for this event.

  • Fifteenth Amendment

    Fifteenth Amendment
    States that no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It's trying to make African Americans be able to vote. It opens up the door for the Ku Klux Klan to use fear to intimidate Africans into not voting.
    There is no exact date for this event.