Timeline and Terms

Events

At Lincoln’s death Johnson became president
Battle of Fort Wagner
Battle of Milliken’s Bend
Black delegation at White House
Black political participation in Reconstruction
Buffalo soldiers authorized as peacetime regiment
Bureau of Colored Troops established
Compensation of black veterans
Crittenden-Johnson Resolution
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation draft
Escaped slaves declared “contraband”
Fifteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment ratified
First all-black regiment in the North authorized
First Confiscation Act
First private meeting between Lincoln and Douglass
Fort Pillow Massacre
Fourteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment ratified
Freedmen’s Bureau established
Fremont’s Proclamation
Harriet Tubman helped free slaves
Hunter’s Proclamation
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Juneteenth
Last slaves returned under Fugitive Slave Law
Lincoln assassinated
Lincoln urged Thirteenth Amendment
Missouri banned slavery
Nevada entered the Union
New Louisiana constitution
New Maryland constitution
New York City Draft Riots
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Robert Smalls commandeered Confederate steamer
Second Confiscation Act
Second meeting of Lincoln and Douglass
Slavery abolished in Washington, DC
Slavery prohibited in US territories
Surrender of Port Hudson, Louisiana
Tennessee amendment abolishing slavery
The Prayer of Twenty Millions
Thirteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment ratified
West Virginia entered the Union

People

Abraham Lincoln
Benjamin Butler
Charles Sumner
David Hunter
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Henry Highland Garnet
John Brown
John C. Frémont
Julia Ward Howe
Robert Smalls
Sojourner Truth
Thaddeus Stevens
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Wendell Phillips
William Lloyd Garrison
William Wilberforce

Places

Bleeding Kansas
Harpers Ferry

Organizations

54th Massachusetts Regiment
American Colonization Society
contrabands
Radical Republicans
United States Colored Troops