APUSH Reconstruction

1862

Homestead Act

1862

Pacific Railroad Act

1863

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

Lincoln’s 10% Plan

1863

West Virginia admitted to Union

1864

Wade-Davis Bill

1864 Nov

Sand Creek Massacre

1865

13th Amendment ratified

1865

Freedmen’s Bureau established

1865

Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes president

1865

Presidential Reconstruction begins

1865

Sherman’s Field Order #15

1866

Civil Rights Act (defining citizenship)

1866

Ku Klux Klan founded

1867

Reconstruction Acts passed

1867

Tenure of Office Act passed

1868

14th Amendment ratified

1868

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

1868

Ulysess S. Grant elected president

1869

Transcontinental Railroad completed

1870

15th Amendment ratified

1870

Enforcement Acts passed

1872

Credit Mobilier scandal exposed

1872

Liberal Republicans break from GOP

1873

Slaughterhouse Cases

1873

Panic of ___ begins

1874

Red River War ends

1875

Civil Rights Act of (equal access to public services) passed

1875 June

Battle of Little Bighorn

1876

Election of (Hayes v Tilden) & Compromise

1877

Reconstruction ends

1879

Exoduster Movement

1883

Civil Rights Cases (2nd Civil Rights Act = “unconstitutional”)

1887

Dawes Act passed

1890 Dec 29

Wounded Knee Massacre

1890

Mississippi Plan implements disenfranchisement

1892

Populist Party formed

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson