Civil War Timeline / Chronology for 1867

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

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