1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs.

• Black Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Presidential Reconstruction

1865 - Freed all slaves, abolished slavery.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Fifteenth Amendment

16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865).

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

Murder of a public figure, usually for political reasons.

• Assasssination

• Treason

• Execution

• Flogging

Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves.

• Poll Tax

• Grandfather Clause

• Black Codes

• Literacy Test

Made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the country.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

The constitutional amendment adopted in 1870 to extend suffrage to African Americans.

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

President's idea of reconstruction : all states had to end slavery, states had to declare that their secession was illegal, and men had to pledge their loyalty to the U.S.

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction

• Grant's Plan of Reconstruction

A process led by the Radical Republicans that led to the usage of military force to protect blacks' rights.

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction

• Hayes' Plan of Reconstruction

17th President of the United States; first president to be charged of misconduct.

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Samuel Tilden