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Union forces
Union forces advanced into Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana. -
Proclamation
Lincoln made the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. -
Wade-Davis Bill
Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill which required the majority of the adult white men in a confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the union. -
Freedmen's Bureau
Freedmen's Bureau was found. -
Lincoln gets shot
Lincoln was assasinated by John Wilkes Booth. -
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act was passed which granted citizenship to all the people born in the United States except Native Americans. -
14th Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment was passed which granted citizenship to people born in the United States and said that no state could take away any person of life, liberty, or property "without due process of law" -
July 1866
The Election of 1866: President Johnson made the 14th amendment the main issue at the 1866 congressional elections ad hoped that Northern voters would turn against the Republicans and elect him to help his plan for Reconstruction. -
White mob attacks
A white mob attacked delegates at a convention in New Orleans who were supportin voting rights for African Americans. -
Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan was started by former confederate soldiers in Pulaski, Tennessee; spread in the south to drive out union troops and regain control of the South for the Democratic party. -
Military Reconstruction Act
The act divided the former confederacy, except for Tennessee, into five military districts. -
The Command of the Army Act
Required all orders from the President to go throught the headquarters of the general of the army. -
Tenure of Office Act
Required the senate to approve the removal of any government official whose appointment required the senate's consent. -
Johnson/Stanton
Johnson fired Stanton because of the Tenure of Office Act. -
House of Reps
House of Representatives voted to impeach Johnson (charge him with crimes and misdemanors) which led to conviction. -
Senate
The Senate voted 35 to 19 that Johnson was guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. -
The Election of 1868
Johnson couldn't run for the election, but General Grant, the most popular war hero in the North, was nominated and won. -
15th Amendment
Congress passed the 15th amendment which declared that the right to vote shall not be denied on account of race or color. -
Enforcement Acts
Congress passed 3 enforcement acts to stop the violence in the South:
-Federal crime to interfere with a citizen's right to vote
-Federal elections put under supervision of federal marshals.
-Outlawed the activities of the Ku Klux Klan -
Grant
Grant was reelected for president, not Horace Greeley. -
Panic of 1873
The fear of bankruptcy in the world went on which made most banks close down. -
Midterm elections
Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections. -
State legislatures
Democrats took control of all southern state legislatures except Louisiana, Sotuh Carolina, and Florida. -
Compromise of 1877
Republicans nominated Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrats nominated Smuel Tilden for the election; both had equal votes but Hayes won. -
Railroads
Railroads were introduced across the world.
