Reconstruction Dates

Civil War

12th April 1861

When was the Emancipation proclamation issued?

1st January 1863

Ten percent plan

1863

Wade-Davis bill

July 1864

When was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

1865

When was the Freedmen's Bureau established?

1865

When was Lincoln assassinated?

15th April 1865

Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction began

May 1865

When were the Black Codes introduced?

1865

When was the Union army demobilised?

December 1865

When did Johnson veto of Freedmen's Bureau extension?

February 1866

When was the Civil Rights Bill passed?

April 1866

When did racial violence in Memphis break out?

May 1866

When was the Fourteenth Amendment approved?

13th June 1866

When was the Ku Klux Klan founded?

Autumn 1866

When did Radical Reconstruction begin?

2nd March 1867

When was the Tenure of Office Act passed?

31st July 1867

When was Johnson impeached?

16th May 1868

When was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

28th July 1868

When was Grant elected president?

3rd November 1868

When was the Fifteenth Amendment passed?

26th February 1869

When did racial violence in the south intensify?

September 1869

When was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

3rd February 1870

When did the Panic of 1873 begin?

18th September 1873

When did public opinion on radical reconstruction begin to shift?

1874

When was the Civil Rights Bill of 1875 passed?

1st March 1875

When was Rutherford Hayes elected president?

4th March 1877

When did Reconstruction 'officially' end?

April 1877