TIMELINE OF EVENTS

CHAPTER 14 REVIEW

1863 Lincoln issues Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
1865 Ku Klux Klan formed
Freedmen’s Bureau established
Thirteenth Amendment passed
Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes president
1866 Freedmen’s Bureau and Civil Rights Act extended over Johnson’s presidential veto
Fourteenth Amendment passed
1867 Military Reconstruction Acts
Command of the Army and Tenure of Office Acts passed
1868 Andrew Johnson impeached
1869 Fifteenth Amendment passed
Women’s suffrage movement splits over support of Fifteenth Amendment
1870 250,000 blacks attend schools established by the Freedmen’s Bureau
Civilian rule returns to the South
1870–1872 Congress takes steps to curb Ku Klux Klan violence in the South
1873 Financial panic sparks depression
1873–1883 Supreme Court limits rights of African Americans
1875 Civil Rights Act passed
1877 Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president
Reconstruction ends
1879 Black Exodusters migrate from South to Kansas