A Biography of America
Reconstruction – Key Events
1863
November 19
Gettysburg Address
1864
November
Union presidential election
November - December
Sherman captures Atlanta, March to the Sea
1865
April 9
Surrender at Appomattox
April 14
Assassination of Lincoln
December 6
Thirteenth Amendment ratified
1867
March
Congress passes Reconstruction Act.
1868
February
Impeachment of Johnson
July 9
Fourteenth Amendment ratified
November
Election of Grant
1870
February 3
Fifteenth Amendment ratified
1871
April and October
Grant sends in troops against the Klan