TIMELINE OF EVENTS
| 1863 | Lincoln issues Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction |
| 1865 | Ku Klux Klan formed |
| Freedmen’s Bureau established | |
| Congress passes Thirteenth Amendment | |
| April 1865 | Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes president |
| May–December 1865 | Presidential Reconstruction under Andrew Johnson |
| 1866 | Congress passes extension of Freedmen’s Bureau and Civil Rights Act over Johnson’s presidential veto |
| Congress passes Fourteenth Amendment | |
| 1867 | Military Reconstruction Acts divide the South into military districts |
| Congress passes Command of the Army and Tenure of Office Acts | |
| 1868 | Andrew Johnson impeached |
| 1869 | Congress passes Fifteenth Amendment |
| Women’s suffrage movement splits over support of Fifteenth Amendment | |
| 1870 | 250,000 blacks attend schools established by the Freedmen’s Bureau |
| Civilian rule reestablished in all former Confederate states | |
| 1870–1871 | Jefferson Long serves as a Republican congressman from Georgia |
| 1870–1872 | Congress takes steps to curb KKK violence in the South |
| 1872 | Liberal Republicans challenge reelection of President Grant |
| 1873 | Financial panic sparks depression lasting until the late 1870s |
| 1873–1883 | Supreme Court limits rights of African Americans |
| 1875 | Congress passes Civil Rights Act outlawing discrimination in public accommodations, which the Supreme Court rules unconstitutional in 1883 |
| 1877 | Republicans and southern Democrats reach compromise resulting in the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as president and the end of Reconstruction |
| 1879 | Black Exodusters migrate from South to Kansas |