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- Freedmen's Bureau created
- early act of reconstruction
- assisted freedmen in finding political freedom and financial stability

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- Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
- shot at Ford's Theatre, D.C.
- Died the next day, across the street at Petersen House

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- Andrew Johnson becomes president after Lincoln's death - - he succeeded after six weeks of being vice president.

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- Black Codes
- restricted black people from:
- owning property
- conducting business
- buying/leasing land
- moving freely in public

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- 13th Amendment is ratified
- slavery or involuntary servitude is allowed unless as punishment for a convicted crime

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- Ku Klux Klan is formed
- white supremacist group
- "the oldest and most infamous of African American hate groups"
- Their purpose was to reverse the reconstruction acts.

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Civil Rights Act of 1866
- declared all people born in the U.S. as citizens regardless of:
- race
- experience as a slave or involuntary servant

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Memphis Race Riot
- A massacre from May 1-May 3
- resulted in the murders of 46 black people, five rapes, 285 injuries, as well as the destruction of their homes and buildings.
- No arrests were made.

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- Reconstruction Acts of 1867
- A military leader from the North must represent each state.
- All states must ratify the fourteenth amendment before rejoining the union.
- New laws on black male suffrage.

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Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo
- An act of President Ulysses S. Grant
- he thought that annexing Santo Domingo would end slavery in Cuba and other places.

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14th Amendment Ratified
- same concept as Civil Rights Act of '66
- guaranteed all citizens "equal protection of the law"

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- Ulysses S. Grant
- a member of the republican party
- worked to implement reconstruction and rid the effects of slavery

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- Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedmen
- An act of President Johnson
- allowed blacks in the south to advocate for what they wanted

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- 15th Amendment Ratified
- right to vote can not be denied on the basis of race or experience as a slave
- African American men's suffrage

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Colfax Massacre
- a conflict between blacks and whites
- about 150 blacks died while three whites died

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Mississippi Plan/"Shotgun Policy"
- democratic plan to overthrow republican party through efforts including violence
- they removed the effectiveness of republicans

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Compromise of 1877
- an unwritten deal that settled the dispute of the previous presidential election
- President Hayes was placed in office given that he would remove federal troops from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana.