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 |
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