Interactive Timeline – 1865-1888

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Mar President Andrew Johnson vetoes 1866 Civil Rights Act
Jun Ratification of 14th Amendment establishes rights and due process for citizens
Feb President Andrew Johnson vetoes Freedmen's Bureau reauthorization bill
Southern state constitutional conventions begin across the South with mixed-race delegates
Albion Tourgée publishes A Fool's Errand
Oct Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica
Apr Joseph Johnston's army surrenders to William T. Sherman at Durham, NC
THE WORLD: Dominion of Canada established
Feb House of Representatives votes to impeach Andrew Johnson
THE WORLD: Russia sells Alaska to United States
Ku Klux Klan organized in Pulaski, TN
Jan Congress proposes 13th Amendment
THE WORLD: Brazil passes gradual emancipation law
Apr Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Jun Congress proposes 14th Amendment
Congress holds Ku Klux Klan Hearings to assess and publicize violence against freed people and their white allies in the South
Southern state legislatures pass "black codes"
THE WORLD: Austro–Prussian War
Jul Congress overrides Johnson's veto of Freedmen's Bureau Act and Civil Rights Act
Mar Congress passes Reconstruction Acts
THE WORLD: Rising of the Paris Commune
Apr Senate votes not to convict Andrew Johnson
Nov Republican Ulysses S. Grant elected president
Feb Ratification of 15th Amendment prohibits discrimination in voting on the basis of race or previous condition of servitude
May Transcontinental Railroad completed
First national park created at Yellowstone in Wyoming territory
George Armstrong Custer and his forces are defeated at "Battle of Little Bighorn"
THE WORLD: Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital
THE WORLD: Franco–Prussian War begins
THE WORLD: Brazil abolishes slavery
THE WORLD: Franco–Prussian War ends, Napoleon III overthrown, and Third Republic of France established
Apr Colfax Massacre in northern Louisiana kills approximately 150 people
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)
THE WORLD: Rome declared capital of unified Italy
Dec Ratification of 13th Amendment abolishes slavery in United States
Mar Congress passes 1875 Civil Rights Act
THE WORLD: War of the Triple Alliance ends with at least 60% of Paraguayan population dead
Democrats seize control of last three Southern states (Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana)
Mar Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated president; recalls last U.S. troops from the South
THE WORLD: Meiji Restoration in Japan begins rapid modernization
THE WORLD: Germany victory in Franco–Prussian War yields unified Germany
THE WORLD: Suez Canal, built by French, opens in Egypt
Nov Republican Ulysses S. Grant reelected president
May Memphis race riot
Mar Congress establishes Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Apr Robert E. Lee's army surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, VA
Jul New Orleans race riot
Feb Congress proposes 15th Amendment
THE WORLD: Cuba abolishes slavery
Mar Supreme Court issues United States v. Cruikshank verdict, which restricted meaning of 14th Amendment to protection against actions taken by state actors
Nov Democrats gain control of U.S. House of Representatives
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