Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.

Lincoln refuses to sign Wade-Davis bill.

Freedmen’s Bureau established.

President Abraham Lincoln shot; dies on April 15; succeeded by Andrew Johnson.

Black codes enacted.

Thirteenth Amendment becomes part of Constitution.

Congress approves Fourteenth Amendment.

Civil Rights Act.

American Equal Rights Association founded.

Ku Klux Klan founded.

Military Reconstruction Act.

Tenure of Office Act.

Impeachment trial of President Johnson.

Republican Ulysses S. Grant elected president.

Congress approves Fifteenth Amendment.

Ku Klux Klan Act.

Liberal Party formed.

President Grant reelected.

Economic depression sets in for remainder of decade.

Slaughterhouse cases.

Colfax massacre.

Democrats win majority in House of Representatives.

Civil Rights Act.

United States v. Cruikshank.

Republican Rutherford B. Hayes assumes presidency; Reconstruction era ends.