Interactive Timeline – 1865-1888

correct incorrect Jan Congress proposes 13th Amendment

correct incorrect Mar Congress establishes Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

correct incorrect Apr Robert E. Lee's army surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, VA

correct incorrect Apr Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

correct incorrect Apr Joseph Johnston's army surrenders to William T. Sherman at Durham, NC

correct incorrect Oct Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica

correct incorrect Dec Ratification of 13th Amendment abolishes slavery in United States

correct incorrect Southern state legislatures pass "black codes"

correct incorrect Ku Klux Klan organized in Pulaski, TN

correct incorrect Feb President Andrew Johnson vetoes Freedmen's Bureau reauthorization bill

correct incorrect Mar President Andrew Johnson vetoes 1866 Civil Rights Act

correct incorrect May Memphis race riot

correct incorrect Jun Congress proposes 14th Amendment

correct incorrect Jul Congress overrides Johnson's veto of Freedmen's Bureau Act and Civil Rights Act

correct incorrect Jul New Orleans race riot

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Austro–Prussian War

correct incorrect Mar Congress passes Reconstruction Acts

correct incorrect Southern state constitutional conventions begin across the South with mixed-race delegates

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Russia sells Alaska to United States

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Dominion of Canada established

correct incorrect Feb House of Representatives votes to impeach Andrew Johnson

correct incorrect Apr Senate votes not to convict Andrew Johnson

correct incorrect Jun Ratification of 14th Amendment establishes rights and due process for citizens

correct incorrect Nov Republican Ulysses S. Grant elected president

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Meiji Restoration in Japan begins rapid modernization

correct incorrect Feb Congress proposes 15th Amendment

correct incorrect May Transcontinental Railroad completed

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Suez Canal, built by French, opens in Egypt

correct incorrect Feb Ratification of 15th Amendment prohibits discrimination in voting on the basis of race or previous condition of servitude

correct incorrect May U.S. Congress passes "Force Act" giving it power to crack down on the Ku Klux Klan (followed by complementary legislation later in 1870 and 1871)

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Franco–Prussian War begins

correct incorrect THE WORLD: War of the Triple Alliance ends with at least 60% of Paraguayan population dead

correct incorrect Congress holds Ku Klux Klan Hearings to assess and publicize violence against freed people and their white allies in the South

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Brazil passes gradual emancipation law

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Rome declared capital of unified Italy

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Franco–Prussian War ends, Napoleon III overthrown, and Third Republic of France established

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Rising of the Paris Commune

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Germany victory in Franco–Prussian War yields unified Germany

correct incorrect Nov Republican Ulysses S. Grant reelected president

correct incorrect First national park created at Yellowstone in Wyoming territory

correct incorrect Apr Colfax Massacre in northern Louisiana kills approximately 150 people

correct incorrect Nov Democrats gain control of U.S. House of Representatives

correct incorrect Mar Congress passes 1875 Civil Rights Act

correct incorrect Mar Supreme Court issues United States v. Cruikshank verdict, which restricted meaning of 14th Amendment to protection against actions taken by state actors

correct incorrect George Armstrong Custer and his forces are defeated at "Battle of Little Bighorn"

correct incorrect Mar Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated president; recalls last U.S. troops from the South

correct incorrect Democrats seize control of last three Southern states (Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana)

correct incorrect Albion Tourgée publishes A Fool's Errand

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Cuba abolishes slavery

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Brazil abolishes slavery