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Congress passed an act to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.

The enraged the whites in the South

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Abraham Lincoln's aim was to preserve the Union and end the Civil War as quickly as possible. He promised an easy Reconstruction in order to persuade southern states to surrender.

Andre Johnson took office when Abraham died.

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Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.

Johnson believed the Southern states should decide the course that was best for them. He also felt that African-Americans were unable to manage their own lives. He certainly did not think that African-Americans deserved to vote.

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Black Codes restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.

Black codes were created in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and to compel them to work for low wages.

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The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

It abolished slavery in any part of the United States

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Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal–the reestablishment of white supremacy–fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s.

Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and Black Republican leaders.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."

Basically says anyone born in the United States is automatically a U.S. student

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The riot began when a white police officer attempted to arrest a black ex-soldier and an estimated fifty blacks showed up to stop the police from jailing him.  Accounts vary as to who began the shooting, but the altercation that ensued quickly involved more and more of the city.

By the end of May 3, Memphis’s black community had been devastated.  Forty-six blacks had been killed.  Two whites died in the conflict, one as the result of an accident and another, a policeman, because of a self-inflicted gunshot.  There were five rapes and 285 people were injured.  Over one hundred houses and buildings burned down as a result of the riot and the neglect of the firemen.

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The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.

Each state was required to write a new constitution, which needed to be approved by a majority of voters—including African Americans—in that state. In addition, each state was required to ratify the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

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The annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty during the later Reconstruction Era, initiated by United States President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, to annex "Santo Domingo" as a United States territory, with the promise of eventual statehood.

The U.S. later rejected the treaty

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The Fourteenth Amendment is an amendment to the United States Constitution that was adopted in 1868. It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.

It gave African Americans equal rights as white Americans

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Grant was inconsistent in his policy supporting Reconstruction. He sent federal troops into South Carolina to protect African-Americans' civil rights, but failed to send federal troops into Louisiana and other southern states when Reconstruction began to fail there.

He was elected as the 18th president

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The 1865 South Carolina State Convention of Colored People was a statewide meeting of African American civil rights activists after emancipation and the end of the Civil War.

Southern states wanted other states to return escaped slaves.

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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.

Gave everyone except women the power to vote

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The battle-turned-massacre took place in the small town of Colfax, Louisiana as a clash between blacks and whites. Three whites and an estimated 150 blacks died in the conflict.

The ballot resulted in a hotly contested split between the Republican and Democratic candidates, and when President Ulysses S. Grant sent federal troops to support the Republican candidate, white southerners rebelled.

Similar to the Ku Klux Klan, the White League was a paramilitary group that intimidated and attacked blacks and white Republicans across the state.

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The Mississippi Plan of 1875 was developed by white Southern Democrats to overthrow the Republican Party in Mississippi by means of organized threats of violence and suppression or purchase of the black vote.

Their success in doing so led to similar plans being adopted by white Democrats in South Carolina and other majority-black states.

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The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election.

Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House on the understanding that he would remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.

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The Compromise of 1877 Explained: US History Review