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Lincoln elected president
16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. -
13th ammendment
Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress -
Black Codes
laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. -
Freedmens Bureau
established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War -
Lincoln Assasination
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April -
kkk started
he name of three distinct past and present movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy -
Reconstruction Begins
During Radical Reconstruction, which began in 1867, newly enfranchised blacks gained a voice in government for the first time in American history -
14th amendment
citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
15th amendment
granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude -
Enforcement Acts
three bills passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era to guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury service. -
End of reconstruction
Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed, thereby ending Reconstruction. -
Plessey v. Ferguson
landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" -
NAACP created
he National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 -
Scottsboro boy trials begin
nine young black men, falsely accused of raping two white women on board a train near Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931. -
Emmit Till
an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman -
Brown v. Board of education
landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -
Civil rights act of 1965
landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[5] that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[6] It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations"). -
MLK assasinated
Martin Luther King, Jr., was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening.
