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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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*  congress passed "An act to establish a Burea fot the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees"
* this provided food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced southeners, including newly freed African Americans

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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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* on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln
* Five days after congfederate General Robert E Lee. surrendered his massive army

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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 became president on April 15, 1865
* He was vice president for 42 days when he became president

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* They were sometimes refered to as black laws
* They wre restrictive laws desighned to limit the freedom of African Americans

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* passed on January 31, 1865 and ratified on December 6, 1865
* The 13th amendent abolished slavery in the united staes

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* At first, the group focused as much on intimidating Northern “carpetbaggers” as on putting down the newly freed slaves.
* On December 24, 1865 a group of confederate soldiers establiched what would become the first chapter of K Klux Klan

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* civil rights act passed April 9,1866 over the veto of AndrewvJohnson
* The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition.

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* series of events that happened from may 1st to th 3rd in 1866
* it was caused by racial intensions

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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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* were four statutes passed during the Reconstruction Era by the 40th United States Congress addressing requirement for Southern States to be readmitted to the Union.

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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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* On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified.
* The amendment grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War.

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions

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* During a two-month period in the late winter of 1868
* elected delegates from every corner of South Carolina gathered in Charleston to frame

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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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* 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
* For more than 50 years, the overwhelming majority of African American citizens were reduced to second-class citizenship under the “Jim Crow” segregation system.

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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* Known as the Shotgun Policy in South Carolina, the Mississippi Plan called for the bribery or intimidation of black voters.
* Financial enticements were given to blacks who supported the Democrats, and violence was waged on others in order to convince them to join a Democratic club for protection.

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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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* Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina became Democratic once again
* effectively bringing an end to the Reconstruction era.