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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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* Provided needs to displaced southerners and newly freed African Americans.
* Needs included food, shelter, clothing, medical services and land
*The bureau helped with education by assisting benevolent societies in the establishment of schools.

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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 thought that people who deny freedom to others shall not have freedom themselves.
*He issued the emancipation proclamation on January 1, 1863.

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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 granted amnesty to former confederates
*Confederate states had to uphold the 13th amendment and swear loyalty to the union.

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*Restricted black people from owning property,conducting business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public places
*These codes were used to oppress blacks after being able to be "free"

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*This was necessary because the emancipation proclamation did not end slavery entirely.
*The people enslaved in border states was not free

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* KKK was a domestic terrorist group founded after the civil war ended.
*They would lynch black people

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*Declared all persons born in the united states to be citizens without race or previous condition of slavery.
*Andrew Johnson vetoed the legislation but it was overturned.

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*Took place from May 1st to the 3rd
*forty-six Blacks were killed and seventy-five were wounded.
*Five Black women were raped by whites, twelve schools and four churches were burned.

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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 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.
*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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*it was an attempted treaty
* Activist like frederick douglass supported to annex the Dominican Republic because it was a place where black could own land.

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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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*All people born in the united states is granted citizenship
*Made to protect civil liberties freed people from slavery

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*Led union armies to victory over Confederacy in the American Civil War
* Wanted to remove the vestiges of slavery

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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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*Conventions was to make know issues important to former slaves.
*"Equal rights before law"

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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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*African american men can vote
*This does not mean that women could vote

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*White men killed 150 black people
*Three white men died
* Black victims were murdered after surrendering.

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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* Destroyed effectiveness of republican parties in most areas in the south
*Whites either joined democrats or quit politics

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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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*Settled the presidential election
*The president had to remove troops from south carolina, florida and louisiana as part of the agreement