Reconstruction 1863-1877

1865 Jan.: Thirteenth Amendment was approved.
1865 Dec.: Thirteenth Amendment was ratified.
1865 Apr.: The Civil War ended.
................. : Vice President, Andrew Jackson becomes the president after Abraham Lincoln's Assassination.
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1867: First Reconstruction Act passed.
...........Second Reconstruction Act passed.
...........Third Reconstruction Act passed.
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1868: Fourth Reconstruction Act passed.
........... Fourteenth Amendment was ratified: 'Entitles all persons born or naturalized in the United States to citizenship and equal protection under the laws of the United States.'
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1870: Hiram Revels became the first black senator.
........ : Joseph H. Rainey became the first black member of U.S House of Representative.
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1871: There was an act to enforce the fourteenth Amendment also known as Ku Klux Klan Act.
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1874: Robert Smalls was the hero of the civil war and he was elected to Congress as representative of South Carolina.
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1875: Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act: An act to provide black with the right to equal treatment in public places and transportation.