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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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- this act was passed to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to newly freed African Americans
- “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees”

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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 Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln at 10pm
- Soldiers carried Lincoln from Ford's Theatre and across Tenth Street, so that he could pass his last moments peacefully, surrounded by those who knew him best

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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 became president upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- He was only Vice President fo 42 days before he became the President

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- Black codes were rules that anyone mainly in the south had to follow if they were any part black
- If they did not follow the codes they would be punished
- There were about 6 main codes they followed

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- This was the amendment that nationally abolished slavery

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- Formally known as the Klu Klux Klan
- An American white supremacist group whose primary targets were African Americans but anyone who was of color was hated by them also

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- It was declared that all persons born in the United States to be citizens

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- A ex-soldier who happened to be black, was wrongfully arrested
- More African Americans showed up to stop the arrest which then later turn into a riot with shooting

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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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- Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson's veto to enact the first of four Reconstruction Acts

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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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- The Senate beat the Dominican Republic Annexation treaty by a vote of 28 to 28

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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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- The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States"
- Includes former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War

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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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- The Constitution abolished debtors' prison, provided for public education, abolished property ownership as a qualification for office holding, granted some rights to women, and created counties

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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 were granted 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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- a group of white men started a riot that ended killing several people over hte rights being granted to African Americans

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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- The "shot gun" policy is the intimidation and violence of black and white voters
- it destroyed the effectiveness of the Republican Party in most areas of the South as an alternative to one party rule

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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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- After the Democratic victory in 1876, the Democrats had been restored power all across the South which ended the Reconstruction era