Major Events of Presidency:
- Johnson's "Restoration" plan enacted, and by end of 1865 all seceded states had formed new governments
- Black Codes, giving whites substantial control over former slaves, enacted
- Congress reconvenes in December, refuses to admit Southern representatives and created Joint Committee on Reconstruction
- Freedmen's Bureau Act renewed
- Congress approves of 14th amendment, defining citizenship, although most Southern states reject it
- Ex parte Milligan challenges Radical Republican's Reconstruction plans
- Ku Klux Klan formed in South
- Military Reconstruction Act (including 2 supplementary acts) outlines congressional plan for Reconstruction
- Under congressional Reconstruction plan, Southern states establish governments
- U.S. purchases Alaska
- Under congressional plan, most southern states readmitted to Union
- Andrew Johnson impeached, not convicted
- Fourteenth Amendment ratified