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Major Events
Chapter 22 · 1865–1877
The Freedmen's Bureau is created
1865
Presidential Reconstruction under Johnson
1865–1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
1866
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
1867
Andrew Johnson is impeached
1868
The Fourteenth Amendment is ratified
1868
The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified
1870
The Ku Klux Klan campaign of terror
Early 1870s
The Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction
1877