CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1863 |
West Virginia became a state |
| 1863 |
Lincoln announced Reconstruction plan |
| 1863 |
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction |
| 1864 |
Wade-Davis Bill |
| April 4, 1865 |
Assassination of Lincoln |
| 1865 |
Johnson announced plan on Reconstruction |
| 1865 |
Freedmen’s Bureau established |
| 1865 |
Proclamation of Amnesty |
| 1865 |
Joint Committee on Reconstruction |
| 1865 |
Thirteenth Amendment ratified |
| 1866 |
Ku Klux Klan organized |
| April 1866 |
veto of Civil Rights Act overriden |
| June 1866 |
Fourteenth Amendment passed by Congress |
| July 1866 |
veto of Freedmen’s Bureau Act overridden |
| 1866 |
Congressional elections |
| March 1867 |
Military Reconstruction Act |
| March 1867 |
Command of the Army Act |
| March 1867 |
Tenure of Office Act |
| March 1867 |
Second Reconstruction Act |
| July 1867 |
Third Reconstruction Act |
| August 1867 |
Johnson suspended Stanton |
| February 1868 |
Articles of impeachment passed |
| March 6 to May
26, 1868 |
Texas v. White |
| June 1868 |
seven southern states readmitted to Union |
| July 1868 |
Fourteenth Amendment ratified |
| 1868 |
Grant elected president |
| 1870 |
Mississippi, Texas, Virginia readmitted |
| 1870 |
Fifteenth Amendment ratified |
| 1870–1871 |
Enforcement Acts |
| 1872 |
Grant reelected president |
| 1873 |
financial panic |
| 1875 |
Resumption Act |
| 1876–1877 |
Rutherford B. Hayes elected president |
| 1877 |
end of Reconstruction |
