The Reconstruction Era

By Angelo Saulsbury

  • Emancipation Proclamation Issued

    Emancipation Proclamation Issued
  • Period: to

    Presidential and Radical Reconstruction

  • The Freedman´s Bureau is established

    The Freedman´s Bureau is established

  • President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

    President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

  • 13th Amendment ratified

    13th Amendment ratified

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

  • Period: to

    Memphis Race Riot

  • New Orleans Race Riot

  • Ku Klux Klan

    Ku Klux Klan

  • Fourteenth Amendment ratified.

    Fourteenth Amendment ratified.

  • Fifteenth Amendment ratified.

    Fifteenth Amendment ratified.

  • Freedmen's Bureau abolished.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1875 enacted by Congress.

  • Reconstruction ends.