Date
1865
1866
1867
1868
1870
1876
1881
1890-1900
1896
a
Reconstruction in Texas
Event(s)
The Freedman's Bureau is established to help former slaves.
The Civil War ends.
President Lincoln is assassinated.
The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified.
The Civil Rights Act is passed over Johnson's veto.
The First Reconstruction Act is passed.
The Fourteenth Amendment is ratified by the U.S. Congress and becomes a requirement
that Texas must accept to be readmitted as a state.
The Ku Klux Klan begins to terrorize former slaves and others in reaction to changes and
expanded rights for freedmen.
The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified.
O b
Oc
Od
Texas writes a new Constitution and is readmitted with full rights as a state of the
United States.
Based on the chart above, which statement best describes conditions in Texas after the end of Reconstrucion?
The Tuskeegee Institute is founded to educate freedmen from Texas and other states.
African-American citizens are effectively deprived of the vote throughout the South.
Plessy v. Ferguson legalizes racial segregation across the United States, including Texas.
Even after Reconstruction, former slaves kept their full rights and privileges as U.S. citizens, including the right to vote and equality
before the law.
The Freedman's Bureau provided former slaves with land and tools, which led to economic independence for most freedman
even after Reconstruction ended.
Despite the abolition of Slavery, African-American residents of Texas continued to be denied their full citizenship rights after
Reconstruction.
The Freedman's Bureau and the Tuskeegee Institute helped the state government to educate former Confederate soldiers.