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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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1. This was an act that provided food, shelter, clothing , medical services to displaced southerns and newly freed African Americans.

2. In 1872 due to all the pressure and stuff that the white southerns were saying , congress dismantled the Freedmen's Bureau

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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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1. Booth was so against the idea of equality, he was deep into white supremacy, that he thought it was a good idea to kill Lincoln.

2. He died in a family's boarding house

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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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1. He became the president after the assassination of Lincoln

2. He didn't win election , he only became president because Lincoln was shot, but when election came Grant won.

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1. Black Codes restricted black people from doing basically everything that makes them free.

2. Black Codes forced them to work for free and be under a watchful eye

3. The freedom they were "granted" was not freedom at all , you have to feel free mentally and physically

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Dec 6, 1865 13th Amendment is ratified

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Dec 6, 1865 13th Amendment is ratified

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1. It forbids carry slavery across the United States except as a criminal punishment.

2. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. The 14th Amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the US. The 15th Amendment gave Black Americans the right to vote.

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1. The KKK also known as Ku Klux Klan, were devoted to white supremacy

2. They engaged in causing terror, violence, and murder, targeting African Americans

3. Not only African Americans but also white voters who supported racial equality and civil rights.

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1. This gave citizens of every race equal rights to make contracts, testify in court, purchase, hold and dispose of property, and enjoy full and equal benefit of all laws.

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1. This was a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866.

2. It first started when a white police officer attempted to arrest a black ex-soldier and about fifty blacks showed up to help him.

3. The violence had spread to other blacks living just south of Memphis who were attacked while their homes, schools, and churches were destroyed

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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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1. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.

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June 1870 Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo 

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June 1870 Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo 

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1. The Senate defeated the Dominican Republic annexation treaty by a vote of 28 to 28.

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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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1. The 14th Amendment was to grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” so also giving citizenship to formerly enslaved people.

2. The 14th Amendment failed to extend the Bill of Rights to the states and it also failed to protect the rights of Black citizens.

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November 3, 1868 Ulysses S. Grant elected

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November 3, 1868 Ulysses S. Grant elected

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1. U. S grant He was a former US general

2. His presidency was scandal some were true and some were fake. When his term was done he made a book and made a million dollars, and lived the rest of his life happily

3. He's on the 50 dollars bill

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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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1. They had it in South Carolina

2. For the time, black freedmen were allowed to vote

3. Over 90% of black men who were allowed to vote, voted

4. It also allowed women to have financial control

5. No one could be in prison for debt.

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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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1. 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote

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1. A black armed militia unit occupied the Grant Parish courthouse

2. 62–153 Black militia men were murdered while surrendering to a bunch of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan

3. The state made no arrests, but federal troops arrived a few days later and arrested 97 white men in connection with the massacre

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1. White conservatives in the state came up with the "Mississippi Plan" to insure their victory in the upcoming elections

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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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1. This document was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.