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1. Provided support to the newly freed slaves
2. Provided meals, established hospitals, and negotiated labor jobs for former slaves

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Abraham Lincoln gets assassinated: April 15, 1865

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Abraham Lincoln gets assassinated: April 15, 1865

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1. For reconstruction, Lincoln wanted little government involvement with each state's reconstruction efforts.
2. Promised to keep properties private and to pardon all past confederates.

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Andrew Johnson became president: April 15, 1865

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Andrew Johnson became president: April 15, 1865

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1.His reconstruction policy heavily favored white people in the south.
2. Gave white people freedom in the reconstruction efforts while offering no help to the newly freed slaves.

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1. It restricted the rights of black people to own property, conduct a business, and buy and lease land.
2. It also penalized men who were not working, or working at a job that white people did not recognize as a job.

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13th Amendment was ratified: December 6, 1865

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13th Amendment was ratified: December 6, 1865

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1.Slavery is now abolished according to the 13th Amendment
2. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

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1. The Ku Klux Klan, is a white supremacist group targeting those who aren't white, specifically African Americans.
2. The KKK's hate doesn't stop at just skin color, they also target Jewish people, anybody apart of the LGBTQ+ community, and atheists.

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1. Declared that anybody born in the United States is a citizen, no matter their race.
2. President Jackson tried to veto the bill, but congress later overturned it.

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1. Started due to a police officer trying to arrest a black ex-soldier and about 50 black people came and tried to prevent it from happening.
2. Led to about 46 black people were killed and 75 wounded. Women were raped and churches and schools were burned.

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Reconstruction Acts of 1867: March 2 1867- March 11, 1868

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Reconstruction Acts of 1867: March 2 1867- March 11, 1868

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1. Accounted for the readmission for the confederacy states
2. Divided them into 5 military districts, except for Tennessee

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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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1. President Ulysses S. Grant tried to form a treaty with Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) and attempted to promise them statehood.
2. It eventually was signed, but years later relations with the territory fell through.

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The 14th Amendment Ratified: July 28th 1868

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The 14th Amendment Ratified: July 28th 1868

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1. Protects people with the due process of law.
2. Congress enacted this Amendment as a way to further protect the US citizens from overbearing government rule.

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1. Reconstruction with Grant was spotty to say the least.
2. He sent federal troops to assist black civil rights but didn't send any to states where reconstruction was already failing in.

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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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1. This congregation of state representatives for southern states discussed issues due to the reconstruction efforts.
2. It was remembered as a meeting that withheld many democratic principles.

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1. The 15th amendment granted American American men the right to vote.
2. Black women wouldn't be able to vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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1. A reported of as much as 153 black militia men died.
2. Massacre occurred due to the racial tensions in Louisiana and the Governors race of 1872

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1. Democrats discouraged black men from voting by killing any that did as a scare tactic to regain control of government positions in congress.
2. Was very successful and democrats regained control of southern states.

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1. Awarded Republic candidate Rutherford B. Haynes the presidential position.
2. At the price of removing federal troops from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana