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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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-created to help slaves with their transition out of slavery
-provided them with shelter, medical care, and helped them find work
-authorized for 1 year but stayed open 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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-in his last speech he mentions black suffrage for soldiers and others
-killed at Fords Theatre in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth
-Wilkes was a white supremacist who didn't agree with Lincolns ideals on giving African Americans more rights

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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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-came up with a plan of Presidential Reconstruction
-gave the white South a free hand in transitioning from slavery to freedom
-didn't offer blacks a role in politics in the South
-helped ratify the 13th Amendment

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-restrictive laws made to the limit the abilities/freedoms of African Americans allowing them to become cheaper for labor
-many states made African Americans sign yearly labor contracts
-refusal may lead to imprisonment, fines, or being forced into unpaid labor

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-formally abolishes slavery

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-founded in Pulaski, Tennessee
-a secret organization used to intimidate African Americans
-goal was to regain white rule

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-gives citizenship to African Americans
-guarantees equal rights
--vetoed by President Johnson but Congress overrides veto

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-whites assault blacks on the streets
-48 people died (majority were black)
-hundreds of black homes, churches, and schools 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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-divides former Confederacy into 5 military districts
-requires states to adopt new constitutions
-requires elections where African Americans can vote

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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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-gives citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the country
-increases the national government's power over the states to protect ALL American's rights

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-former Union general

-18th President
-created Justice Department
-protected African Americans by working with the Radical Republicans

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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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-first political meetings involving black men
-both black and white lawmakers worked together in Southern states' constitutional conventions

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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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-gave male citizens the right to vote
-race nor previous conditions could keep males from voting

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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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-initiated by Ulysses S. Grant
-attempted treaty declaring annex (power) over Santo Domingo
-promised eventual statehood

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-White League intended on securing white rule in Louisiana clashes with majority black states militia
-3 White League men die
-about 100 black men die (half were killed after they surrendered)

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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-devised by Mississippi Democrats to overthrow Republican rule using intimidation, violence, buying black votes, and paramilitary groups
-Democrats wanted control

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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 in the US that solved the intensely disputed election of 1876
-federal government removed last federal troops out of the South
-ended Reconstruction Era