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Bureau created to help assist freedmen and refugees from the civil war

Provide food, shelter, clothing

helped integrate the new freemen into politics

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April 15th, 1865

Killed by John Wilkes Booth

He was killed for revenge for the confederate states

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Andrew Johnson became president

Plans for reconstruction plan was granting amnesty and returning peoples property for loyalty

Required to uphold 13th amendment

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Restricted black peoples rights to own property, buy and lease land, move freely through public space

Criminalized men who where not at work and who didn't do work jobs whites recognized

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Abolished all slavery in the United States

Happened at the end of the Civil War before the southern states had been restored to the union

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KKK Formed

Created from confederate veterans created during reconstruction

Encouraged white supremacist beliefs with violent acts

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Declared all persons born in united states to be citizens

Without distinction of race or color

President Johnson vetoed this but then it was overturned

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Memphis Race Riot

Racial violence occurring during the reconstruction of the united states from May 1-3

Mobs of white men attacked black neighborhoods and the houses of freedmen

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Reconstruction Acts

Divided former confederate states except Tennessee into 5 military districts

They also outlined the terms for readmission into the union

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Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo

Attempted treaty to help annex santo domingo and have it become a state of the United States

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14th Amendment is ratified

Extended the Liberties and rights to formerly enslaved people

No state shall deprive someone of "Life, Liberty, or Property"

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Ulysses S. Grant elected

18th president of the USA

He was a commander who had led the Union army to victory during the Civil War

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Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

Freedmen were able to vote and participate

The results led black adult men to vote and run for public office

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15th Amendment is ratified

Granted African American men the right to vote

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The Colfax Massacre

62-153 Black men were killed after surrendering to a mob of the KKK and former confederate soldiers

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Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

Used by white men as intimidation to stop voters to guarantee they could win the elections

Intimidation, harassments, and threats

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Compromise of 1877

Settled the intense dispute of the 1876 presidential election

Formally ended the reconstruction Era