Topic summary
Reconstruction era
From left to right and top to the bottom: The ruins of Richmond, Virginia; newly-freed Black Americans voting for the first time in 1867; office of the Freedmen's Bureau in Memphis, Tennessee; Memphis riots of 1866
(Southern States)
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Formation of the KKK
Reconstruction Acts
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Enforcement Acts
Reconstruction Amendments
Compromise of 1877