Timeline and Terms

Events

African American exodus to Kansas
Amnesty Act of 1872
Amnesty proclamation
At Lincoln’s death Johnson became president
Black political participation in Reconstruction
Black schools authorized
Buffalo soldiers authorized as peacetime regiment
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Compensation of black veterans
Compromise of 1877
Congressional control over Reconstruction
Fifteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment ratified
Fourteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment ratified
Freedmen’s Bureau established
Grant re-elected
Great Chicago Fire
Hampton Roads Peace Conference
Indian Appropriation Act
Juneteenth
Ku Klux Klan Enforcement Acts
Ku Klux Klan organized
Lincoln assassinated
Lincoln urged Thirteenth Amendment
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Minor v. Happersett
Mississippi Plan
Missouri banned slavery
New Louisiana constitution
New Maryland constitution
Panic of 1873
President impeached
Purchase of Alaska
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
Resumption Act of 1875
Salary Grab Act
Southern rebellion declared over
Ten Percent Plan
Tennessee amendment abolishing slavery
Tennessee re-admitted to the Union
Thirteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment ratified
Troops withdrawn from South
Ulysses S. Grant elected president

People

Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Graham Bell
Andrew Johnson
Benjamin Butler
Blanche K. Bruce
Charles Sumner
Hiram Revels
Horace Greeley
Mary Edwards Walker
Robert Smalls
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ulysses S. Grant
William Seward

Organizations

American Woman Suffrage Association
buffalo soldiers
carpetbaggers
Exodusters
Freedmen’s Bureau
Ku Klux Klan
National Woman Suffrage Association
Redeemers
scalawags
sharecroppers