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March 3, 1865  Freedmen’s Bureau created

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March 3, 1865  Freedmen’s Bureau created

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-Provides former slaves immediately with shelter and medical services.

-The Freedmen's Bureau was only supposed to be in place for a year but lasted until 1868

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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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-Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865 in the Ford's Theatre by John W. Booth after Lincoln's speech saying the Civil War was over after Robert E. Lee surrendered.

-Abraham Lincoln had come up with the Ten-Percent Plan which meant that a Southern state would be taken over by the Union (North) again if 10% of the voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.

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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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-Andrew Johnson wanted to be on good terms with the South and it is why he said he would restore property except for slaves to all landowners if they swore their loyalty to the Union.

-Andrew Johnson started to become more lenient to the white man. He even said, "white men alone must manage the south." He also kicked freed slaves out of their land to give it to the white man.

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-Freedmen were not allowed to work anywhere else except the fields.

-Unemployed black men were able to be taken and auctioned to planters/farmers for labor.

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-Slavery is abolished and the Union is quickly becoming demobilized in the South going from 1 million troops down to 152,000 troops.

-The government is quickly filling up with many past Confederates. In congress the Confederates are 4 colonels, 4 generals, and 6 Confederate cabinet officers.

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-The Ku Klux Klan was formed in order to scare the African Americans from practicing their own rights such as voting.

-The Ku Klux Klan was a group of white's that were Confederates and could not handle seeing blacks able to have so much freedom.

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-All males in United States are able to share the same freedoms as white males.

-The president at the time President Johnson vetoed the act congress overrides the veto.

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-The violence from these riots lasted for 3 days between whites and blacks.

-Black pillages and churches are burned down and 48 people die in result of the riots nearly all of them are 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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-The North is making the Southern states divide into military districts, adopt constitutions, introduce black suffrage, and ratify the fourteenth amendment.

-Ulysses S. Grant is trying to become better than Andrew Johnson and demobilize hime in a way by taking away Johnson's control of the military.

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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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-Offers equal protection and citizenship to all born in the United States.

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions

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-Ulysses S. Grant is elected as president on November 3rd.

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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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-Any citizen of the United States is able to vote and is not to be denied in any way.

-This amendment was to let women be able to vote in elections.

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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-White men were resorting to violence to instill fear in blacks to get their way in the presidential election.

-If blacks were to go vote it would go as far as they could be killed just for voting.

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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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-The Republican party would take the presidential election and said that they would stop the use of Reconstruction policies.

-This cause the South to go back to discriminating against blacks and causing segregation.