H105, American History I (Prof. Konstantin Dierks)
Week 15 timelines

Constitutional amendments:

13th abolished slavery (passed 1865; ratified 1865)

14th granted citizenship to blacks (passed 1866; ratified 1868)

15th granted suffrage to black men (passed 1869; ratified 1870)

rise and fall of Reconstruction:

March 1865    Freedmen’s Bureau run by northern army

April 1865      Abraham Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson (from Tennessee) became President

1865              amnesty for southern whites; no land redistribution for freed slaves

1866              Ku Klux Klan organized (burnt black schools; intimidated black male voters; etc.)

1876-1877    Fraudulent election of "President" Rutherford Hayes (from Ohio)

1877             Northern army was withdrawn from South – no further enforcement of federal law until 1960s

early visions of United States imperialism before Civil War:

1846-1848     war between United States and Mexico

1848-1851    American "filibusters" tried to invade Cuba

1849             American "filibusters" tried to invade Yucatan

1852-1854    Matthew Perry to Japan

1854-1855   filibuster William Walker tried to invade "Lower California"

1856-1857   filibuster William Walker tried to invade Nicaragua

1856            Guano Island Act

rise of United States imperialism after Civil War:

1871            U.S. Navy invaded South Korea

1872            Yellowstone National Park

1890            Massacre at Wounded Knee

1898            Spanish-American War

                    new colonies:
                    Philippines
                    Hawaii
                    Cuba
                    Puerto Rico
                    Panama Canal Zone
                    Guam
                    American Samoa
                    Palmyra Atoll
                    Wake Island