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Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was created March 3rd, 1865 and was a Bureau of refugees. freemen, and abandoned lands. Their goal was to provide relief for southerners both black and white. The Freedmen's Bureau was the first large scale relief organization that provided food, clothing, fuel, and medical services, job and family location. -
Civil War Ends
After The Civil War ends on April 9th 1865 reconstruction starts which is a period of time after The Civil War ends and the nation becomes reunited and the south needs rebuilding. Even after The Civil War ended their was still slavery in the border states. -
Lincoln Assassinated
Abraham Lincoln was shot fatally on April 14,1865 by a southerner named John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. and Andrew Johnson then becomes president -
13th Amendment ratified
The 13th amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except for committing a crime and being punished for it. The 13th amendment was passed by the senate on April 8th 1864 and ratified on December 6 1865. -
Civil Right's Act of 1866
The Civil right's Act of 1866 gave African Americans the same right's as Whites. This bill was vetoed President Johnson but Congress still passed it and it became enacted on April 9th 1866. -
Memphis race riots
The Memphis race riots were a serious of violent events that led to a huge massacre caused by racial tension. The massacre lasted three days from May1-May3 1866. -
New Orleans race riots
New Orleans race riots occurred on July 30th as white democrats including firemen and police officers. They attacked republicans most of them black parading outside the Mechanical institute of New Orleans. -
Reconstruction Acts
The U.S. legislation enacted in 1867-68 outlined the conditions under which the Southern States would be readmitted to the Union. In which was followed by the American Civil War 1861-65. A lot of these bills were largely written by the radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress. -
14th amendment ratified
The 14th amendment granted U.S. citizenship to all people born naturalized in the United States. This amendment overturned the Dred Scott case and gave U.S. citizens equal protections under the law and prohibited guaranteed due process. The 14th Amendment was adopted on July 9th 1868 -
Grant Elected president
Ulysses S. Grant was an American Soldier and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869-1877. Grant Also Led the the Union Army as the commanding General of the United States. -
1st Black Senator Elected
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American was elected by the Mississippi State Legislature . Some democratic members of The United States Senate opposed his being seated based on the court case Dred Scott v. -
15th Amendment ratified
Reconstruction acts only gave the vote to blacks in the south. No citizen could be denied the right to vote based upon Race, color, and or previous condition of Servitude. The 15th Amendment was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869, and ratified in 1870 on the third day of February. -
The Civil rights Act of 1875
The Civil rights Act of 1875 also called the Enforcement act and or the Force Act. This Act was a United States Federal law that was enacted during the reconstruction era in to a response to civil rights violations against African Americans. -
Compromise of 1877
The compromise of 1877 was an written deal that informally grouped U.S. Congressmen, that settled intensely disputed the 1876 election. This resulted in the United States pulling the last of the troops out of the South and finally ending the reconstruction era. -
Reconstruction Ends
Congress loses interest in reconstruction and the Republicans retired and focus shifted to economics and democrat Samuel J. Tiden beats republican Rutherford B. Hayes. The republicans challenge election results Compromise of 1877 and Hayes becomes president as long as the federal troops are removed from the south ultimately ending reconstruction. -
1st black Governor elected
Lawrence Douglas Wilder was the 66th Governor of Virginia he was also an a American Lawyer and politician and was the first African American Black Governor of the United States Since reconstruction.
