CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1863 |
Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction announced |
| 1864 |
Wade-Davis Bill |
| 1865 |
Joint Committee on Reconstruction established |
| 1865 |
Thirteenth Amendment ratified |
| 1865 |
Creation of Freedmen’s Bureau |
| April 14, 1865 |
Assassination of Lincoln |
| May 29, 1865 |
Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction announced |
| February 1866 |
Veto of Freedmen’s Bureau Extension Bill |
| April 1866 |
Congress overrode Johnson’s veto of Civil Rights Act |
| June 1866 |
Fourteenth Amendment passed by Congress |
| 1866 |
Ku Klux Klan organized in the South |
| March 2, 1867 |
Military Reconstruction Act |
| August 1867 |
Johnson replaces Stanton with Grant as secretary of war |
| February 1868 |
House votes to impeach Johnson |
| March 5 to May 26, 1868 |
Trial of Johnson in Senate |
| 1868 |
Fourteenth Amendment ratified |
| June 1868 |
All southern states except Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia, readmitted to Congress |
| 1868 |
Texas v. White decision of Supreme Court |
| 1869–1877 |
Grant administrations |
| 1870 |
Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia readmitted to Congress |
| 1870 |
Fifteenth Amendment ratified |
| 1875 |
Resumption Act |
| 1876–1877 |
Hayes elected |
| 1877 |
End of Reconstruction |
