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Freedman's Bureau Established
Federal bureau to help freedman and free Blacks integrate into American society during the Reconstruction Period. It provided federal aid (food, shelter, supplies, medical services, and land). This did not radically transform white supremacy's hold on society as sharecropping and crop linen kept many Black farmers in poverty and in debt to white former masters. -
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Reconstruction Era
Reconstruction marked a period of federal involvedness in the racialization of rights in America by establishing the Fourteenth Amendment, cementing birthright citizenship which mandated the Civil Rights Bill (1866). To encourage enforcement in the South, the Reconstruction Act allowed freedmen to vote and targeted noncompliant states. -
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Establishment of the Black Codes
Southern state governments trying to restrict and control lives of Free Blacks. It granted them rights to marriage, land, and marginal access to courts. It denied rights to testify against white people, serve on juries, serve in state militia, and suffrage. -
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
Lincoln killed by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre on Good Friday. Booth wanted to aid the traitorous Confederacy even post-Civil War. This caused Andrew Johnson to rise to presidency the same year. -
Klu Klux Klan Established
The military arm of the racist violent Democratic people of the South. It is a designated terrorist organization, and the Enforcement Acts (1870-1871) were created to launch the federal military against the KKK and to combat state authority with nationalistic Reconstruction in the South. -
Reconstruction and Tenure of Office Act
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