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I believe that reconstruction was a failure. I think that it was a failure because although the slaves and poor white people got what they wanted it only lasted a limited amount of time. It may have been a success for a couple years but for it to be a true success it must last much longer than what it did. It was also a failure because it caused a lot of people to get killed which was unnecessary. It also caused a lot of conflict in the relations between the president, congress, and governments.

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1865- Reconstruction begun
1863- Abraham Lincoln announces his Proclamation of Amnesty and the ten percent plan
1865- Lincoln assassinated and Andrew Johnson announces his own reconstruction plan
Late 1865- New southern legislators arrive in Washington, D.C. to take their seats
1866- Congress voted to expand the Freedmen´s bureau and passed the Civil Rights act
1866- During the elections, radical republicans gained control of Congress
1868- Ulysses S. Grant voted into Presidency
1870- All former confederate states complete the process to return to the Union
1872- Congress passed the Amnesty Act
1873- Series of bank failures known as ¨the panic of 1873¨ caused a five-year depression

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Abraham Lincoln-
Born: February 12, 1809 close to Hodgenville, Kentucky
Died: April 15, 1865
Cause of Death: Assassination in Washington, D.C.
President: 1861-1865
¨Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power¨
R.I.P.

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Diary entry: Black Southern Sharecropper 

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Diary entry: Black Southern Sharecropper 

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Since the end of the Civil War and reconstruction has begun life has slowly gotten better. Something that has helped in my life since the war has been over is the Freemen´s Bureau. They have helped me to provide essential things to me that i may have not been able to achieve on my own. Something else that has helped to improve is that the Radical Republicans have taken action against the poor plans of our president. The Radical Republicans have continuously vetoed Andrew Johnson´s attempt at a law or act having anything to do with a negative effect on my race. Although as it continued to go on, Congress was eventually able to find a way to impeach President Johnson and took their chance and succeeded. Since then i have been sharecropping for my master so that i can save up money to start tenant farming so that i will be able to provide for my family.

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Political role of African Americans during Reconstruction 

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Political role of African Americans during Reconstruction 

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-The first African American senator and representatives
The Fifteenth Amendment stated that no one can be kept from voting due to race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This made it possible because African Americans could vote all the representatives and one senator into office.

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Divided into five military districts
The military act was a law that divided all the Southern states into five military districts. It was enacted to require states to grant African-American men the right to vote and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in order to reenter the Union. Southerners reacted by impeaching president Andrew Johnson after he tried to veto the act and removed the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton from office.

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Free food, clothing, health care, legal protection, and education for former slaves and poor whites in the South!