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Freedmen’s Bureau is created March 3rd, 1865

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Freedmen’s Bureau is created March 3rd, 1865

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Provided:

Food

Shelter

Clothing,

Medical services

Land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.

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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated April 15, 1865

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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated April 15, 1865

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16th president of the U.S.

Appealed to poorer whites

Offered to pardon all Confederates

Appealed to former plantation owners and southern aristocrats

Pledged to protect private property.

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Restricted Black people's right to:

Own property

Conduct business

Buy and lease land

Move freely through public spaces.

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Drafted by James Mitchell Ashley

Signed by Abraham Lincoln

Abolished slavery in U.S

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Hate organization

White supremacist agenda

Intimidated and were violent towards Black freedmen

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The Early Ku Klux Klan and White Supremacy

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Civil Rights Act of 1866 April 9th, 1866

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Civil Rights Act of 1866 April 9th, 1866

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Defines African Americans citizenship

Guarantees equal rights

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White civilians and police kill 46 African Americans

90 houses and schools were destroyed

4 churches were destroyed

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Reconstruction Acts of 1867 March 2, 1867 - March 11

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Reconstruction Acts of 1867 March 2, 1867 - March 11

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Former Confederacy is divided into 5 military districts

African American Men are required to vote

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14th Amendment is ratified July 28, 1868 

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14th Amendment is ratified July 28, 1868 

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Guarantees:

Due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans

Grants citizenship to African Americans

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18th President

Signed 15th Amendment

Suppressed the Klu Klux Klan

Used martial law and federal troops to restore law and order

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Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman Winter 1868

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Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman Winter 1868

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Met in Charleston with majority of black delegates

Embodied democratic principles absent from previous constitutions

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15th Amendment is ratified February 3, 1870 

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15th Amendment is ratified February 3, 1870 

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Granted African American men right to vote

Tennessee was last to ratify

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Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo June 1870 

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Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo June 1870 

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Drafted by Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish

Purchase Samaná Bay for 2 million U.S dollars

The Dominican Republic could apply for statehood

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Clash between blacks and whites

3 whites and about 150 blacks died

Due to racial tensions following the Louisiana governor's race of 1872

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Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy” 1875

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Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy” 1875

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Meant to intimidate blacks and white republicans into not voting

Goal was to regain political control of the state for conservative democrats

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Compromise of 1877 after the 1876 election 

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Compromise of 1877 after the 1876 election 

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Informal agreement between Southern Democrats and allies of Republican Rutherford Hayes

Settled the result of the Presidential Election(1876)

Removal of all remaining military forces from the former Confederate states

Appointment of at least one Southern Democrat to Hayes' cabinet

Construction of another transcontinental railroad through the South and Texas

Right to deal with African American citizens in southern states without northern interference