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Freemen's Bureau
An agency created by the Goverment that helped and protected newly freed African Americans find jobs, homes, education, and a better life. This was for the best for black people -
Civil War Ends
On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S Grant. This means that the confederate had to turn in their riffles, but were allowed to return home and keep their horses and mules. -
Lincoln Assassinated
Abraham Lincoln was watching a play with his wife. He was then shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth. Booth was a confederate sympathizer. -
13th Amendment Ratified
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. Lincoln believed that a constitutional amendment was necessary to ensure the end of slavery. -
Civil Rights Act 1866
The first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. The KKK was a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used violence and terror. -
Memphis Race Riots
The racial violence was ignited by political, social, and racial tensions that followed the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reconstruction. This riot ended on May 3, 1866 -
New Orleans Race Riots
It was a battle between two opposing factions for power and office. There were stemmed from deeply rooted political, social, and economic causes. -
1st Reconstruction Act
Passed into law on March 2, 1867 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The act applied to all the ex-Confederate states in the South, except Tennessee who had already ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. -
2nd Reconstruction Act
Refers to the American Civil Rights Movement against segregation and discrimination that burst out following World War II. During this period, African-Americans once again began holding various political offices, and reasserting and reclaiming their civil and political rights as American citizens. -
3rd Reconstruction Act
Gave supreme power to the five Union generals overseeing Reconstruction in the five districts of the South. Each district included several former states of the Confederacy, with the exception of Tennessee, which was never under military rule. -
4th Reconstruction Act
The South was divided into five military districts and governed by military governors until acceptable state constitutions could be written and approved by Congress. States were required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in order to be readmitted to the Union. -
14th Amendment Ratified
The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. The amendment had been rejected by most Southern states but was ratified by the required three-fourths of the states. -
Grant Elected President
At age 46, Ulysses S. Grant became the youngest president-elect in U.S. history up to that time. The election of 1868 was the first to be held after the American Civil War, and went to its outcome were the issues of Reconstruction of the South and suffrage for the newly freed slaves. -
1st Black Senator Elected
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve. He was elected by the Mississippi State Legislature to succeed Albert G. Brown, who resigned during the Civil War. Some Democratic members of the United States Senate opposed his being seated based on the court case Dred Scott v. -
15th Amendment Ratified
The 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote. It also prohibits the federal governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race and state color. -
1st Black Governor Elected
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (P.B.S Pinchback) was the first black governor to be elected. He was governor during the Reconstruction. -
Grant Rights Act of 1875
The act was designed to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights. The bill finally signed into law by Ulysses S. Grant as the Civil Rights Act of 1875. -
Compromise of 1876
Was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election. Also was to mark the end of the Reconstruction era. -
Reconstruction Ends
The election of 1876 was the reason why the reconstruction was ended. Also there were fewer rights for African Americans and ended the military rule in the South.
