1. Lincoln’s Funeral Train

2. Lincoln’s Funeral procession on Pennsylvania Avenue

3. Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States (1865–1869). Following the assassination of President Lincoln, Johnson presided over the immediate aftermath of the Civil war. As president, he took charge of Presidential Reconstruction – the first phase of Reconstruction – which lasted until the Radical Republicans gained control of Congress in the 1866 elections. His conciliatory policies towards the South, his hurry to reincorporate the former Confederate states back into the union, and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with some Republicans. The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868, charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, a law enacted by Congress in March 1867 over Johnson's veto, but he was acquitted by a single vote in the Senate. “Sir Veto”

4. Thaddeus Stevens I repose in this quiet and secluded spot Not from any natural preference for solitude But, finding other Cemeteries limited as to Race by Charter Rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death The Principles which I advocated Through a long life, EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR

5. The Freedmen’s Bureau

6. Freed slaves in the South regarded schooling as the key to improving their children’s lives and the fulfillment of a long-sought right that had been denied blacks in slavery. These well-dressed schoolchildren are lined up outside their rural, one-room schoolhouse alongside their teachers, both black and white. Educating Young Freedmen and Freedwomen, 1870s

7. King Andy President Andrew Johnson’s repeated clashes with Congress over Reconstruction outraged many Northerners who thought he abused the power of the presidency to shelter the defeated Confederacy from the consequences of defeat

8. “Andy Veto” February of 1866, President Johnson vetoed an extension of the Freedman’s Bureau. This was followed by the president’s veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and Congress historical override of a presidential veto for the first time.

9. Congress vs. Johnson Johnson Stanton Grant

10. On February 25, 1868, the House Managers of Impeachment, led by Thaddeus Stevens and John A. Bingham of Ohio, went before the U.S. Senate to present eleven articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson. The case rested on Johnson's removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton from office, but in reality grew out of congressional disapproval of Johnson's Reconstruction policies.

11. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

12. “Poor Andy”

13. Congressional Military Districts of Reconstruction

14. Statehood and Restoration

15. The exercise of democratic rights by former slaves constituted a political and social revolution in the South and was bitterly resented by whites. Freedmen Voting, Richmond, Virginia, 1871

17. Carpetbagger

18. The most notorious of the secret terrorist societies was the Ku Klux Klan which originated in Tennessee in 1866. At first it was purely a social club, but by 1868 it had been taken over by vigilante types dedicated to driving blacks out of politics, and it was spreading rapidly across the South. Sheet-clad night riders roamed the countryside, frightening the impressionable and chastising the defiant. When intimidation failed, the klansmen resorted to force. In hundreds of cases the KKK murdered their opponents, often in the most gruesome manner. Congress struck at the Klan with three Force Acts. Neverthe less the KKK contributed substantially to the destruction of Republican regimes in the South.

19. “The Union As It Was” By Thomas Nast

20. The Ku Klux Klan, Tennessee, 1868 This night-riding terrorist has even masked the identity of his horse.

22. Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant (1822 – 1885) was general-in-chief of the Union Army from 1864 to 1869 during the American Civil War and the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877. Popular due to the Union victory in the war, Grant was elected President of the United States as a Republican in 1868 and re- elected in 1872, the first President to serve two full terms since Andrew Jackson 40 years before. As President, Grant led Reconstruction by signing and enforcing Congressional civil rights legislation. Grant built a powerful, patronage-based Republican Party in the South, straining relations between the North and former Confederates. His administration was marred by scandal, sometimes the product of nepotism.

23. Ulysses S. GrantRepublican3,013,42152.7% Horatio SeymourDemocrat2,706,82947.3%

26. “Let us Have Peace” General Grant National Memorial, better known as Grant's Tomb, is a mausoleum containing the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), American Civil War General and 18th President of the United States, and his wife, Julia Dent Grant. The granite and marble structure was designed by architect John Duncan, and completed in 1897. The National Park Service maintains that it is the largest mausoleum in North America.

27. Presidential Election of 1876 The End of Reconstruction Republican – Ohio Democrat – New York

28. Presidential Election of 1876