History: USA
Reconstruction Timeline

1865

• Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Shot on 14th April by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC. He died on 15th April

• 13th Amendment

  • Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime

1866

• Presidential Reconstruction

  • Under President Andrew Johnson after Lincoln’s assassination

  • Wanted to restore the Union in as little time as possible

  • He returned confiscated property to white southerners, issued hundreds of pardons to former Confederate officers, and undermined the Freedmen’s Bureau

  • He also appointed governors to supervise the drafting of new state constitutions and agreed to readmit the former seceded states once they had ratified the 13th Amendment

• Klu Klux Klan founded

  • In Tennessee a group of Confederate veterans gather to create a secret society

1867

• Reconstruction Acts

  • First Reconstruction Act - Divided the formerly seceded states into 5 military districts, each governed by a Union general. Troops were dispatched to keep the peace and to protect former slaves

  • Second Reconstruction Act - Union troops were placed in charge of voter registration

  • Third Reconstruction Act - Gave supreme power to the 5 Union generals overseeing the Reconstruction in the 5 districts in the South

1868

• 14th Amendment

  • Addressed citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues…