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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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- To provide food, shelter, medical services to freed African Americans
- Was established in 1865 in the war department

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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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-John Wilks Booth was the first person to kill an American President.
-He believed Lincoln was trying to overthrow and destroy the south

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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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- He had a plan of reconstruction that gave the white south a free hand.
- Offered no roles to blacks

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- The black code only pertained to people of color and color only
- If your 1/8th Negro blood these codes applied to you.

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- The big thing was that it abolished slavery within the United States
- This was ratified because of the Emancipation Proclamation

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- This group uplifted the rights of the local blacks.
- Went mainly after African Americans
- They would consist of destruction to property, assault, murder and even burning crosses

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- Declared all person born in the united states to be citizens
- 14th Amendment

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- It was a series of unfortunate violent events
- What started this all was political, social, radical tensions after the civil war

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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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- This act divided confederate states
- required southern states to be readmitted with the union

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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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-The treaty was an attempt during the reconstruction era which failed
- President feared them

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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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- citizenship to all people born in the US
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- Was elected president 21st
- This was the first election in the reconstruction era

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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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Main things- abolished debtors and abolished poverty

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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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- This one was big allowed African American men to vote
- For years African Americans were seconds class

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- One of the most violent eras
- Thousands African Americans were killed from clans like the KKK

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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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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- Unwritten deal
- Ending the reconstruction era