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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
1864

  • Wade-Davis Bill passed by Congress but killed by Lincoln’s pocket veto
1865

  • Freedmen’s Bureau established

  • Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson succeeds him as president

  • Johnson implements restoration plan

  • Ex-Confederate states pass Black Codes to limit freedpeople’s rights
1866

  • Civil Rights Act passes over Johnson’s veto

  • Major Republican gains in congressional elections
1867

  • Reconstruction Act
1868

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

  • Fourteenth Amendment ratified

  • Ulysses S. Grant elected president
1870

  • Ku Klux Klan at peak of power

  • Congress passes Enforcement Laws to suppress Klan

  • Fifteenth Amendment ratified
1872

  • Grant reelected; Crédit Mobilier scandal emerges
1873

  • Panic of 1873 ushers in severe economic depression
1874

  • Sweeping Democratic gains in congressional elections
1875

  • Whiskey Ring and other scandals undermine Grant administration

  • Minor v. Happersett: Supreme Court rules that Fourteenth Amendment does not extend voting rights to women
1876

  • Supreme Court severely curtails Reconstruction in U.S. v. Cruikshank
1877

  • Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president

  • Reconstruction officially ends

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: Identify two crucial turning points in the course of Reconstruction. What caused those shifts in direction, and what were the results?