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-  Freedmen’s Bureau created “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees”
- It would provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans

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- Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
- Abraham created the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction which was his plan to get the Confederate states to be a part of the Union.

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- Andrew Johnson became president he was a democrat. His goal was to make the white farmers of small farms as the new leaders of the South.
- This caused a lot of clashing with the Republican party. And ultimately he supported states rights.

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- Black codes were laws that were created to limit freedom of African Americans.
- They wanted to ensure that they could use African Americans for cheap labor, prevent Black people from owning property, conduct business, own land, and move freely in public spaces.
-Mississippi and South Carolina were the first states to enforce Black codes.

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- The 13th amendment is ratified which states that slavery is abolished "within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction"
- It was passed by the senate in April, then by the house on January, and finally ratified by the states in December

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- The KKK is formed it started in Pulaski, Tennessee.
- By a group of Confederate veterans which purposely tried to intimidate and create violence to Black people.

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- The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was declared that everyone who was born in the United States was a citizen regardless of race, color, or previous conditions (slavery)
- It was Andrew Johnson's legislation that vetoed this Act but it was ultimately overturned.

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- Memphis Race Riot was after the Cvil war when majority white people attacked on Black residents of Memphis, Tennessee basically saying that they are unwilling to share civil or social rights
- It started when a white police officer attempted to arrest a ex-soldier who was Black

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- The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 which defined terms for eadammised to representatives of rebel states.
- Each state had to write a new constitution that ratified the 13th and 14th amendment and it  needed to be approved by the states apart of the vote.
- After they did all of that they could gain full recognition

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- Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty to get the Dominican Republic to be added as a U.S. territory.
- They also promised that eventually it would become a state

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- The 14th Amendment was ratified it stated that granted citizenship to all people who were enslaved and later gained their freedom.
- This is important because it addressed a controversial issue looking at rights of citizens.

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- Ulysses S. Grant was a well-known general who led the United States in a victory during the Civil War.
- When he was deciding who was going to be apart of his cabinet he didn't look at party but instead who would be reliable
- He was very inconsistent, once he was supposed to send troops to South Carolina to protect African Americans civil rights but failed to send them

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- Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman it was informal and uncodified tradition that is followed by institutions of a state
- South Carolina wanted to return escaped slaves

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- The 15th Amendment is ratified it states that the right of citizens in 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 servitude.
- But women of all races were still denied the right to vote.

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- The Colfax Massacre was in Louisiana and a clash between white people and Black people
- Three whites and 150 Black people were killed. And it was the backdrop of racial tension.

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- The Mississippi Plan or "Shotgun Policy" stated that violence and intimidated of black and white voters
- It destroyed the effectiveness of the Republican Party in areas of the South

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- Compromise of 1877 is an informal agreement between Southern Democrats and Republican Rutherford Hayes.
- It stated that it marked the end of the presidential election