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- works to smooth the transition from slavery
- provide former slaves with shelter and medical services
- remain in operation till 1868

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- he prepared to reunify the South and North after the end of the war
- he hoped that the proclamation would rally northern support for the war
- he seemed to favor self-Reconstruction

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- his main goal was to make the white small farmers of the South its new leaders
- he wanted to give the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom

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- black codes were laws that restricted black people's right to move freely in public, conduct business, owning property, and buying/leasing land
- these laws amounted to slavery
- it was used to re-establish white supremacy

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- Congress required Confederate states to ratify the amendment as a condition of regaining federal representation
- slavery was abolished within the United States

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-  masks were worn to instill fear
- created by a small group of former Confederate soldiers
- it was organized to spread fear and violence

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- grants citizenship and the same rights as white citizens to all males in the U.S.
- President Johnson vetoed it, but it was overridden by Congress

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- three days of whites assaulting blacks on the streets
- 48 people died from this
- churches, schools, and black homes have been burned

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- the South was divided into five military districts
- all males were permitted to participate in the constitutional conventions regardless of race
-states were forced to ratify the 14th Amendment in order to be readmitted to the Union

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- an attempted treaty to annex Santo Domingo as a U.S. territory
- there was a promise of eventual statehood

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- defined citizenship to include all people born in the U.S.
- prohibits the states from depriving "any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law"

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- elected president
- won an electoral majority of 214-80

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- freedmen voted and participated
- this guaranteed the right of black adult males to vote and run for public office
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- the right of citizens to vote should not be denied because of race, color, etc

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- a paramilitary group clashed with Louisiana's state militia
- almost one hundred black men are killed
- half are murdered in cold blood after surrendering

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- devised to overthrow the Republican Party in the state of Mississippi by organized threats
- disturbances occurred throughout the state as Democrats won state elections

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- an informal, written deal that settled the disputed election (1876 U.S. Presidential)
- it gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in exchange for the end of Reconstruction in the South