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-An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees

-it provided food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.

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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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-President Abraham Lincoln Was shot and killed by john Wilkes Booth.

-Was killed while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

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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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-Is sworn into presidency

-He had been Vice President of the United States for only 42 days when he succeeded to the presidency.

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-Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.

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December 6, 1865  13th Amendment is ratified

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December 6, 1865  13th Amendment is ratified

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-Officially Ended Slaverly

-Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865

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-Was formed in Texas

- Was created to contuinte to oppress black people with violence

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- declared all male persons born in the United States to be citizens

-Although President Andrew Johnson vetoed the legislation, that veto was overturned by the 39th United States Congress and passed

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- A series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3

-The racial violence was ignited by political, social, and racial tensions following the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reconstruction.

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-laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union

-Tried to reunite North and South

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July 9, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified 

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July 9, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified 

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- granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.

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 1868 Southern constitutional conventions including freedman

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 1868 Southern constitutional conventions including freedman

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-requiring southern states to create new constitutions in order to be readmitted to Congress

-Made southern states allow blacks to take part in debates

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-Was passed On February 15, 1869

-Gave colored men the right to vote

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-called for the bribery or intimidation of black voters

-Financial enticements were given to blacks who supported the Democrats, and violence was waged on others in order to convince them to join a Democratic club for protection

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-The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among U.S. Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election.

-It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ending the Reconstruction Era

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