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- Provide assistance to former slaves
- Union general Oliver Howard commissioned the bureau
- bureau agents negotiated:
-labor contracts
-settled disputes between black and white Southerners

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- Lincoln proposed the 10 Percent plan
- Aimed to reunite Southern & Northern states
- Did not offer rights to former slaves

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- Andrew Johnson elected president
- All land and property confiscated by the Union was transferred back to it's prewar owners
- Only applied to Confederate members who pledged allegiance to the Union

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- Black codes created to limit the rights of African Americans
- Limited their choice of jobs and their ability to leave said job

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-13th Amendment was ratified
- Georgia was the 27th & the final state to endorse it

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- Former Confederate soldiers banded together to form the KKK
- Aimed to defeat the Republican party & enforce white supremacy within the US

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- The Civil Rights Act was created
- All people born within the US equal citizens

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- African American soldiers took out several White policeman after they attempted to arrest an African American soldier
- This stirred up revolt among Southern Whites and caused the deaths of 46 African Americans & the injury of 75
- 12 Schools were burned, alongside 4 Churches
- Five African American women were raped
- primary targets were former Union soldiers
- Sparked an additional riot within New Orleans

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- Four Reconstruction Acts were created to state the requirements for Confederate states to be allowed back into the Union
- Applied to all Confederate states aside from Tennessee
- Tennessee ratified the 14th Amendment & was already allowed into the Union

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- Annexation of Santo Domingo was a failed attempt at treaty
- US forces tried to annex the Dominican Republic with promises of making it an eventual state
- Senate shut down the treaty causing the Dominican Republic to be left alone

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- 14th Amendment was ratified
- Citizenship granted to all free slaves

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- Ulysses S. Grant won the presidential election
- He formerly served as the Secretary of War & before that lead the Union armies

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- South Carolina Constitutional convention was held with a majority of African American delegates
- Wrote a constitution that helped form modern South Carolina

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- 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote
- The amendment sparked controversy from Women's rights movements who believed they should also be granted the same right

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- Ongoing power struggles between White Democrats & White Republicans caused a group of Democrats to attack and kill a group of African Americans at Colfax, Louisiana
- This event became known as the Colfax massacre
- Southerners supported the massacre as it proved how far they'll go to enforce their authority

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- White Democrats utilized intimidation tactics to coerce African American voters to vote for them
- This tactic became known as the Mississippi plan & included threats of violence + fraud to ensure the Democratic party their spot in Senate

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- Compromise of 1877 caused a settling of the widely disputed presidential election of 1876
- Granted Rutherford B. Hayes presidency in exchange for the end of Reconstruction in the South
- Proved that the North were never truly on the side of African Americans as they had completely abandoned the fight for Civil Rights to gain more power