TIMELINE

TIMELINE 1863–1877

1863
  • Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.

1864
  • Lincoln refuses to sign Wade-Davis bill.

1865
  • 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.

1866
  • Congress approves Fourteenth Amendment.

  • Civil Rights Act.

  • American Equal Rights Association founded.

  • Ku Klux Klan founded.

1867
  • Military Reconstruction Act.

  • Tenure of Office Act.

1868
  • Impeachment trial of President Johnson.

  • Republican Ulysses S. Grant elected president.

1869
  • Congress approves Fifteenth Amendment.

1871
  • Ku Klux Klan Act.

1872
  • Liberal Party formed.

  • President Grant reelected.

1873
  • Economic depression sets in for remainder of decade.

  • Slaughterhouse cases.

  • Colfax massacre.

1874
  • Democrats win majority in House of Representatives.

1875
  • Civil Rights Act.

1876
  • United States v. Cruikshank.

1877
  • Republican Rutherford B. Hayes assumes presidency; Reconstruction era ends.