A Timeline of Reconstruction: 1863-1877
1863 –Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
1864- Lincoln refuses to sign Wade-Davis bill 1865- Freedman’s Bureau established. President Abraham Lincoln shot; dies on April 15; succeeded by Andrew Johnson. Black codes enacted. Thirteenth Amendment becomes part of Constitution. 1866- Congress approves Fourteenth Amendment. Civil Rights Act. American Equal Rights Association founded. Ku Klux Klan founded. 1867- Military Reconstruction Act. Tenure of Office Act. 1868- Impeachment trial of President Johnson. Republican Ulysses S. Grant elected president. |
1869- Congress approves Fifteenth Amendment. 1871- Ku Klux Klan Act. 1872- Liberty Party formed. President Grant reelected. 1873- Economic depression sets in for remainder of decade. Slaughterhouse cases. Colfax massacre. 1874- Democrats win majority in House of Representatives. 1875- Civil Rights Act. 1876- United States v. Cruikshank. 1877- Republican Rutherford B. Hayes assumes presidency; Reconstruction era ends. |