1860-1869 - Radical Reconstruction
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 1, 1860 |
Presedential Elections: Popular Vote Electoral VoteAbraham Lincoln (Republican) 39.8 180 |
| April 23, 1860 |
Democratic national convention in Charleston,SC |
| May 16, 1860 |
Republican national convention in Chicago,surrounded by "Wigwams" |
| June 18, 1860 |
Democrats re-assemble in Baltimore |
| December 4, 1860 |
South Carolina leaves the Union |
| January 9, 1861 |
Mississippi leaves the union |
| July 21, 1861 |
Select Committee on the Loyalty of Government Employees started |
| December 4, 1861 |
Breckinridge expelled from Senate as a traitor |
| December 10, 1861 |
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War in House,investigations into General Stone |
| February 1, 1862 |
Indiana's Jesse Bright expelled from Senate |
| September 22, 1862 |
Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln |
| January 1, 1863 |
Lincoln offers extension of recognition to South with 10% taking oath |
| May 1, 1863 |
Vallandigham peace campaign ends,tried in court for resisting draft |
| January 1, 1864 |
Presedential Elections: Popular Vote Electoral VoteAbraham Lincoln (Republican) 55 212 |
| April 8, 1864 |
abolishing of slavery in House |
| June 7, 1864 |
Union Party first convention in Baltimore |
| July 5, 1864 |
Wade-Davis bill vetoed |
| September 1, 1864 |
Sherman captures Atlanta,Lincoln gains popularity |
| January 1, 1865 |
Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction established |
| April 14, 1865 |
Lincoln assassinated |
| January 1, 1866 |
ranks of Republicans in congress expanded after war |
| January 1, 1866 |
Johnson vetoes Civil Rights Bill and extension of Freedmen's Bureau |
| June 13, 1866 |
Fourteenth Amendment passes |
| January 7, 1867 |
James M. Ashley introduced legislation to impeach president |
| January 13, 1867 |
First reconstruction Act introduced by Stevens |
| January 22, 1867 |
House voted to have 40th Congress begin the day after 39th Congress and authority to call special sessions |
| March 1, 1867 |
Tenure of Office Act passed |
| March 2, 1867 |
Reconstruction Act vetoed and overridden |
| March 23, 1867 |
Supplementary Reconstruction Act |
| July 19, 1867 |
Third Reconstruction Act |
| August 2, 1867 |
Johnson fires Secretary of War Stanton,impeachment given |
| January 1, 1868 |
Presedential Elections: Popular Vote Electoral VoteUlysses S. Grant (Republican) 52.7 286 |
| March 4, 1868 |
Johnson impeachment trial begins |
| March 11, 1868 |
Third Reconstruction Act |
| May 16, 1868 |
vote on removal of Johnson fails |
| May 20, 1868 |
National Union Republican" party convention at Chicago |
| July 4, 1868 |
Democrats hold convention in new Tammany Hall |
| September 24, 1868 |
Black Friday caused by corrective action by Secretary of Treasury Boutwell |