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Civil War Timeline / Chronology for 1867 <<Previous year Next year>>
January 4 , 1867
Ohio ratifies the 14th Amendment
Ohio
14th Amendment
January 8 , 1867
Kentucky rejects the 14th Amendment
Kentucky
14th Amendment
January 8 , 1867
Blacks in Washington D. C. gain the right to vote in a bill passed over President Andrew Johnson's veto
Washington D. C.
January 9 , 1867
Virginia rejects the 14th Amendment
Virginia
14th Amendment
January 10 , 1867
New York ratifies the 14th Amendment
New York
14th Amendment
January 11 , 1867
Kansas ratifies the 14th Amendment
Kansas
14th Amendment
January 12 , 1867
Pennsylvania ratifies the 14th Amendment
Pennsylvania
14th Amendment
January 15 , 1867
Illinois ratifies the 14th Amendment
Illinois
14th Amendment
January 16 , 1867
West Virginia ratifies the 14th Amendment
West Virginia
14th Amendment
January 16 , 1867
Michigan ratifies the 14th Amendment
Michigan
14th Amendment
January 16 , 1867
Minnesota ratifies the 14th Amendment
14th Amendment
January 19 , 1867
Maine ratifies the 14th Amendment
Maine
14th Amendment
January 22 , 1867
Nevada ratifies the 14th Amendment
14th Amendment
January 23 , 1867
Indiana ratifies the 14th Amendment
Indiana
14th Amendment
January 25 , 1867
Missouri ratifies the 14th Amendment
Missouri
14th Amendment
February 6 , 1867
Louisiana rejects the 14th Amendment
Louisiana
14th Amendment
February 7 , 1867
Wisconsin ratifies the 14th Amendment
Wisconsin
14th Amendment
February 8 , 1867
Delaware rejects the 14th Amendment
Delaware
14th Amendment
March 1 , 1867
Nebraska becomes a state
March 2 , 1867
Federal army restores military rule to Mississippi (2nd Reconstruction).
March 2 , 1867
Congress passes the Tenure of Office Act, denying the right of the President to remove officials who had been appointed with the consent of Congress.
March 5 , 1867
Alexandria, Virginia rejects thousand of votes cast by Negroes, who were granted universal suffrage under the Reconstruction Act.
March 6 , 1867
General Philip Sheridan assumes command of the 5th Military district encompassing Louisiana and Texas. He designates New Orleans as his headquarters.
March 20 , 1867
Massachusetts ratifies the 14th Amendment
Massachusetts
14th Amendment
March 23 , 1867
Maryland rejects the 14th Amendment
Maryland
14th Amendment
March 23 , 1867
Congress passes the 2nd Reconstruction Act over Andrew Johnson's veto
March 30 , 1867
William P. Seward signs a treaty with Russia buying Alaska for 2 cents an acre. Democrats called it "Seward's Folly"
April 9 , 1867
Senate ratifies treaty purchasing Alaska
May 15 , 1867
Nebraska ratifies the 14th Amendment
14th Amendment
June 24 , 1867
Congress passes a bill admitting Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina into the Union. Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, having refused to ratify the fourteenth amendment, were refused admission into the Union
July 3 , 1867
House Select Committee on Reconstruction is appointed
August 8 , 1867
President Andrew Johnson demands the resignation of Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War.
Andrew Johnson
August 12 , 1867
Ulysses S. Grant becomes ad interim Secretary of War
Ulysses S. Grant
August 12 , 1867
Edwin Stanton suspended by President Andrew Johnson
Edwin Stanton
October 18 , 1867
Russia turns over Alaska to the United States