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*established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.

*The Bureau was responsible for the supervision and management of all matters relating to the refugees and freedmen and lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War

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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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*At 10:15, Booth slipped into the box and fired his gun into the back of Lincoln’s head.

* the gun was a .44 caliber pistol

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Andrew Johnson Becomes President April 15, 1865

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Andrew Johnson Becomes President April 15, 1865

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*He became president because lincoln was killed and he was next up in line.

*He was the vice president for only 42 days before he became president

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*Restricted black people rights to do certain things

*They were designed to limit the freedom of african americans

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13th Amendment is ratified. December 6, 1865

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13th Amendment is ratified. December 6, 1865

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*The 13th amendment abolished slavery within the united states.

*The 13th amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865.

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*KKK stand for Ku Klux Klan

* They were a hate group in support of white supremacy

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*This act made it so that if a person was born in the united states they were a citizen no matter what race/color.

* President Andrew johnson vetoed this act but he was denied.

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*In southern Memphis Tennessee their was lots of tension.

*There was shootings and over time more and more of the cities were getting involved.

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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.

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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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*The annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty during the later Reconstruction Era initiated by United States President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869

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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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it was Passed by the Senate on June 8, 1866, and ratified two years later on July 9, 1868.

All people who where born in the united states where citizens.

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he became the president in november 3, 1868.

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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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In March 1867, the Reconstruction Acts were passed, requiring southern states to create new constitutions in order to be readmitted to Congress.

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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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Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870.

The 15th Amendment granted African American men the right 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 massacre took place against the backdrop of racial tensions following the hotly contested 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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The violence and intimidation of black and white voters, often called the “shotgun policy” or the “Mississippi Plan,” destroyed the effectiveness of the Republican Party in most areas of the South as an alternative to one-party (Democratic) rule.

Whites left the GOP and rejoined the Democrats or quit politics.

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

Through it 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.