Reconstruction

Freedmen's Bureau Acts

Mar 3, 1865

This offered assistance. This helped provide things such as medical aid and education, to freed slaves and war refugees.

Lincoln is shot

Apr 9, 1865

Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. This is an important event because Lincoln had one view and the president soon to be, Andrew Johnson, had a completely different view.

KKK

Dec 24, 1865

The Ku Klux Klan Becomes an uprise during this time period. This organization was composed of mostly Confffederate Army veterans. This was a secret organatization in the South for the purpose of reestablishing white authority.

Civil Rights Acts of 1866

Apr 9, 1866

This granted citenship and equal protection under the law to African Americans. This was great new for the African Americans because it gave them some freedom to do things they were never allowed to do.

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Mar 2, 1867

This ablosihed governments formed in the former Confederate states. It also divided those states into five military districts and set up requirments for readmission to the Union.

14th Amendment

Jul 9, 1868

This makes all persons "born or naturalized in the Untied States" citizens. It stipulates that states that prevented male citizens from voting would lose a percentage of their congressional seats. This barred most Confederate leaders from holding political offices

15th Amendment

Feb 3, 1870

This states that no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" This is great for people being not able to vote because of different reasons.

Enforcement Act of 1870

Dec 7, 2015

This Act protected the voting rights of African Americans. It also gave the federal government power to enforce the 15th Amendment.