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Reconstruction Timeline
Created by
Avery Shields
⟶ Updated 5 Dec 2017 ⟶
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March 1865 Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
December 1863 Lincoln offers amnesty to citizens of previous Confederate states
Summer 1864 Wade-Davis Bill
March 1865 Congress establishes Freedmen's Bureau
December 1865 Congress reassembles
Summer 1865 Congress is at recess Johnson begins his plan for reconstruction
Late 1865 House and Senate create joint committee for planning reconstruction
March 1866 Civil Rights Act is passed Congressional Reconstruction begins
1868 Fourteenth Amendment ratified
March 1867 Congress passes MIlitary Reconstruction Act
November 1868 Ulysses Grant elected President
March 1870 Fifteenth Amendment ratified
March 1868 Andrew Johnson tried but not impeached
Late 1870s All former Confederate states have returned to Union
1876 40% of all African American children attend school
1870-1871 3 Enforcement Acts passed which outlaw the activites of KKK
1872 Liberals split from Republican party
1873 The Panic of 1873 led to an economic depression
1874 Midterm elections put democratic party back in control of the House and Senate
1876 Democrats have taken control of all but 3 Southern State Legislatures
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes elected President
1877 Compromise of 1877