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March 3rd, 1865: Freedmen's Bureau created 

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March 3rd, 1865: Freedmen's Bureau created 

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The Freedmen Bureau was an act passed by congress to give and provide shelter, food, clothing, medical services, and land to newly freed African Americans and displaced southerners.

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April 15th, 1865: Abraham Lincoln is assassinated 

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April 15th, 1865: Abraham Lincoln is assassinated 

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On this day in 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater. He was assassinated by John Lloyd. Abraham Lincoln created the Emancipation Proclamation which helped to free slaves and end slavery.

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April 15th, 1865: Andrew Johnson becomes president

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April 15th, 1865: Andrew Johnson becomes president

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After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated Andrew Johnson became president.

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Fall 1865: Black Codes start to be implemented throughout the South

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Fall 1865: Black Codes start to be implemented throughout the South

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South Carolina and Mississippi were the first states to enact black codes. Black codes were created to maintain political dominance. They were also made to control the movement and labor of freed African-Americans.

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Dec 6th, 1865: 13th Amendment is ratified

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Dec 6th, 1865: 13th Amendment is ratified

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The 13th officially abolished slavery across the United States. "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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A group of confederate veterans in Tennessee formed the KKK. They were bent on reversing the Recontruction polices that were made in the South, especially the ones that gave African Americans rights. They engage in violent and terrorist raid against African Americans and they would assault them, imitate them and murder them.

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Civil Rights Act gave Americans of every race and color the right testify in court, make contracts, purchase property, and gave them the right benefit from all laws. At this time it only applied to people born in the United States.

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The Memphis Race Riot also considered the Memphis Massacre went from May 1st to the 3rd. The cause of this massacre was a white police officer attempting to arrest an ex African American solider and 50 other African Americans stepped in to stop him. A white mob started attacking them murdering 46 Africans American and wounding many others. They also burned down Black schools and churches. This violence shows the unwillingness of whites when it came to African Americans getting the same rights as them.

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

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

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The Reconstruction Acts stated the conditions in which the Southern States would be readmitted to the Union. Johnson Vetoed the bill on March 2nd and it would take 3 more times for it be passed.

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July 28th, 1868: 14th Amendment is ratified

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July 28th, 1868: 14th Amendment is ratified

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The 14th Amendment was ratified by 27 of the 37 states at the time. It granted citizenship to all people either born or naturalized in the US.

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November 3rd, 1868: Ulysses S. Grant elected

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November 3rd, 1868: Ulysses S. Grant elected

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Before presidency Ulysses S. Grant was a commanding General and during his run as president he worked to implement the Congressional Reconstruction. He also prosecuted the KKK and gave African Americans and Jewish Americans positions in Federal Offices.

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

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This was the first Constitutional convention to have a large number of African American delegates. It held many democratic principles that previous constitutions lacked.

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June, 1870: Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo 

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June, 1870: Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo 

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Ulysses S. Grant initiated this treaty to try and make the Dominican Republic apart the US territory and promise them statehood. He feared that the Europeans would take this island.

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February 3rd, 1870: 15th Amendment is ratified 

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February 3rd, 1870: 15th Amendment is ratified 

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The 15th Amendment grant African Men the right to vote. Thsi amendment was another step forward for African Americans in the struggle to gain equality.

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The Colfax Massacre was a day-long horror that started when a group of white supremacist launched an attack on a courthouse that was being guarded by mostly Black Militia.

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1875: Mississippi Plan or "Shotgun Policy" 

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1875: Mississippi Plan or "Shotgun Policy" 

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The Mississippi plan would use racial terror, violence, threats, massacres, and harassment to overthrow the Black power in the reconstruction era.

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After the 1876 election: Compromise of 1877

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After the 1876 election: Compromise of 1877

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Allies from Republican Rutherford Hayes and Southern democrats came to an informal agreement to settle the 1876 election. This marked the end of the Reconstruction Era. As a result Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana became democratic.