1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.
1864 Lincoln refuses to sign Wade-Davis bill.
1865 Freedmen's Bureau established.
Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes president.
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.
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.
Slaughterhouse cases.
Colfax massacre.
1874 Democrats win majority in House of Representatives.
1875 Civil Rights Act.
1876 United States v. Cruikshank.
1877 Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president; Reconstruction era ends.