Events
Johnson implements his own Reconstruction plan for restoration of the UnionWade-Davis Bill passed by Congress but killed by Lincoln's pocket vetoFreemen's Bureau establishedLincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson succeeds him as presidentEx-Confederate state pass Black Codes to limit freedpeople's rightsCivil RIghts Act of 1866 passesMajor Republican gains in congressional electionsReconstruction Act of 1867 enacted14 amendment ratifiedUlysses S. Grant elected presidentKKK at peak powerCongress passes Enforcement Laws to suppress KKKVictoria Woodhull declares her support for "free love"Grant reelected; Credit Mobilier scnadal emergesPanic of 1873 ushers in sever economic depression-> collapse of republican partySupreme Court severly curtails Reconstruction in Slaugher-House CasesSweeping DEmocratic gains in congressional electionsWhiskey Ring and otehr scandals undermien Grant adminMInor v. Happersett: Supreme Court rules that 14th amendment doesn't extend voting rights to womenBeecher-Tilton scandal dominates headlinesRutherford B. Hayes becomes president; federal Recosntruction ends15th amendment ratifiedHate crimes against African Americans in MemphisCongress proposes the Wade-Davis BillCongress convenes, Republican majorities refuse to admit southern delegationsCongress extends the Freedmen's bureauViolence in New Orleans1866 Congressional Elections13th amendmentTenure of Office ActKu Klux Klan ActJohnson "suspends" Secretary of War StantonJohnson formally dismisses StantonHouse of Representatives introduces articles of impeachment against JohnsonGrant is Republican presidential nomineeEqual Rights Association convention. Frederick Douglass begs for women to let black men's suffrage take priorityAmerican Woman Suffrage AssociationNational Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)Woodhull runs for presWomen can vote in the Wyoming TerritoryEnfranchisement for Utah womenJohnson orders head of Freedmen's Bureau to dispossess black land ownersSC makes a land commission to buy and resell property to landlessHiram Rhodes REvels is elected to the U.S. Senate to fill Jefferson Davis's former seatSC- state legislature is a majority of African american men in the lower house of legislatureCivil Rights Act of 1875Sumner's death; waning of Radical Reconstructionthe Freemen's Savings and Trust Company failsCivil Rights CasesU.S. v. CruikshankSummaryPeriods
Impeachment Trial of Andrew JohnsonAfrican Americans begin gatherings to agree on "plans and terms for labor"Confederate states rejoin union; SOuthern Reconstruction govsUnion LeagueBuilding African American Communities
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