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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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Was created to help former black slaves and white people in poverty in the south after the Civil War. It provide food, housing, clothes, medical services, and land for them.

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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 assassinated Lincoln near the end of the Civil War to revive confederate cause. He thought that by assassinating him this would happen.

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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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Andrew Johnson was the Vice President of the United States for only 6 weeks, until Abraham Lincoln got assassinated. He then became the President as a result.

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The black code was something that took away black people's rights to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.

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13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. It was issued because the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery entirely because some black people were still enslaved in border states.

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A group of Confederate soldiers established the Ku Klux Klan to restore white supremacy through terrorist activity like murder.

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The civil rights act stated that all people that were born in the united states were citizens "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."

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After the civil war white people did not agree with having to share civil and social rights with black people so they attacked black people that lived in Memphis Tennessee.

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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 reconstruction act divided former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts. It also outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states.

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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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Was an attempted treaty later in the reconstruction era that make the Dominican republic into United States territory with plans to later make it a state.

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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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This allowed people that were born in the United states or neutralized in the United states to be citizens and granted them all equal protection of the laws.

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Ulysses S. Grant defeated Horatio Seymour in the first election after the American civil war. It was the first election where african americans could vote.

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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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It removed the racial and property barriers for having the right to vote. With a black population majority voting, many African Americans in the Republican Party became elected state officials for the first time in history.

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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 gave African American men the right to vote by saying that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

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White democrats were angry about the republicans winning the governor race in Louisiana. As a result the white democrats murdered several black men.

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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Was made because of the fear of black voters. Whites went back to being democrats or resigned from 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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It was an unwritten agreement between democrats from the south and people who supported republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election.