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-created to smooth the transition from slavery
-provided former slaves with shelter and medical services
-was like a middle man during negotiations

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April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated 

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April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated 

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-assassinated by stage actor John Wilkes Booth
-caused Andrew Johnson to become president

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April 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president 

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April 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president 

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-vice president becomes president to fill in for assassinated President Lincoln
-his presidency ended on March 4, 1869

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-they were laws that restricted black citizens in labor
-banned African Americans to work anything but field jobs, and basically allowed people to treat the freedmen as slaves

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-abolished slavery in the US
- only exception is if a person is convicted of a crime and servitude is part of the punishment

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-Ku Klux Klan started in Tennessee
-they wanted to undo the Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially ones that helped the African Americans

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-allowed citizenship and the rights that go with it to all male people in the US, including black men
-President Johnson tries to veto it, but Congress overrules it

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-white assault black and ransack and burn hundreds of black homes and communities
-48 are dead, majority of them black

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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-also known as the Radical Reconstruction
-the acts place soldiers in the South and require states to make new constitutions, allow black voting, and support the 14th amendment

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July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified

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July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified

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-granted citizenship to people born in the US
-protected people's life, freedom, and property equally

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

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- first time black voters had participated in one in the South
-during this convention, Black Codes were abolished

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February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified

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February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified

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-gave citizens the right to vote
-women and African Americans could officially not be denied a vote

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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-this was using intimidation and violence against black and white voters
-it was mainly targeted at Republicans

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After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877

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After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877

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-it was an agreement between southern Democrats and people in support of  Republican Rutherford Hayes
- ended up with the Democrats not protesting Hayes’ victory and Republicans withdrawing  federal troops from the South, making the South Democratic again