US History Timeline

  • Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

    Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

    -It addressed a new state of gov, property laws and slavery.
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    Reconstruction Timeline

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  • Wade-Davis Bill

    Wade-Davis Bill

    At the end of the Civil War, this bill created a framework for Reconstruction and get rid of the confederacy.
  • Klu Klux Klan

    Klu Klux Klan

    Originally for a former confederate social club, then led to terrorist organization. Targeted blacks
  • Special Field Order 15

    Special Field Order 15

    Military orders issued during American Civil War.
  • Scalawags

    Scalawags

    White southern republicans and were the biggest group of delegates to the Radical Reconstruction-era legislatures.
  • Black Codes

    Black Codes

    Laws passed with the intention of resisting the african americans’ freedom and earned low wages.
  • Freedman's Bureau

    Freedman's Bureau

    Congress helped millions of former black slaves and white poors in the South at the end of the Civil War.
  • Lincoln’s Death

    Lincoln’s Death

    Famous actor assassinated Lincoln at Ford’s theatre in Washington D.C.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    Abolition of slavery
  • Civil Rights Bill

    Civil Rights Bill

    Banned discrimination in public places, equal schooling and employment discrimination is illegal.
  • “Great Constitutional Revolution” by Carl Shurz

    “Great Constitutional Revolution” by Carl Shurz

    Transformed federal system and the language of freedom so central to American political culture.
  • Reconstruction Act

    Reconstruction Act

    Laid out process for readmitting Southern states into the Union.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Provided formal slaves with national citizenship.
  • Sharecropping

    Sharecropping

    Landowner allows tenant to use use the land in return for a share of the crops from their portion of the land.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    Black men have the right to vote.
  • Enforcement Acts

    Enforcement Acts

    3 laws passed protecting African Americans right to vote, to hold office, to serve in juries and lawful equality.
  • Slaughterhouse Cases

    Slaughterhouse Cases

    Law passed to ban slaughtering in certain states.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1875

    Civil Rights Act of 1875

    Federal law passed in response to civil rights violations to African American by making them equal.
  • Radical Republicans End

    Radical Republicans End

    Fraction of republicans committed to emancipation of the slaves and equality of free slaves.
  • Bargain

    Bargain

    informal, unwritten that settled dispute of 1876 US presidential election. Resulted in the US pulling lasts’ troops out of the South and ended the reconstruction era.