 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
Webquest
Reconstruction Timeline
House in Freedman's
Village from a Mathew Brady Photograph
Harper's Weekly,Ý May
7, 1864
April 1862 Lincoln signed a bill that emancipated slaves in
the District of Columbia and encouraged colonization to Liberia, Haiti and other
locations.
July 17, 1862 Militia Act gave President Lincoln the authority
to allow black troops to enter the naval or other military service for which
they were qualified.
September 22, 1862 Lincoln announces that on January 1, 1863
the slaves will be freed in the Confederacy.
January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees the slaves in
the Confederate states.
July 30, 1863 Lincoln pledges his support for all of his troops.
December 1863 Freedman's Village is dedicated.
June 1864 Congress passes a bill for equal pay for all troops.
March 3, 1865 The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned
Lands, otherwise known as Freedman's Bureau is created.
March 3, 1865 Congress liberated the wives and children of the
men serving in the United States Colored Troops.
ÝApril 14, 1865 Lincoln was assassinated
March 1867 Congress passed the first Reconstruction over Andrew
Johnson's veto. It divided the South into five military districts. An army general
would command each district.
Ý
Back
to Bobbi's Page