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CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF 1866
During the Congressional elections of 1866, President Andrew Johnson had to go against Radical Republicans for whether the south should be treated with leniency or not. -
CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
this was to be the first of the issue between the 39th Congress and the President Andrew Johnson over the future of the former Confederacy and African-American civil rights. -
PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION
The presidential reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1867. The president's Reconstruction was lenient. not many Confederate leaders were prosecuted. By 1866, 7,000 Presidential pardons had been granted. -
MILITARY RECONSTRUCTION ACTS OF 1867
The south was divided into several military districts governed by previous union generals. -
President Johnson Impeached
The House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson for "high crimes and misdemeanors." Andrew Johnson rejected the law Congress passed to protect the rights of people who had been past slaves. -
P.B.S. Pinchback
the first African American to become governor of a U.S. state. -
WITHDRAWAL OF UNION TROOPS IN 1877
The withdrawal of union troops resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ending the Reconstruction Era -
PANIC OF 1893
The panic of 1893 was an economic depression that lasted for around four years
