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March 3, 1865

- Helped assist emancipated African Americans
- Abolished in 1872

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April 15, 1865

- President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
- Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes president

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April 15, 1865

- Gave white Southerners regulation from slavery to freedom
- No role to blacks in the South

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Fall, 1865

- Restrictive laws to limit freed African Americans
- Cheap labor after slavery was abolished

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December 6, 1865

- Abolished Slavery in the United States
- Congress required Confederate states to ratify

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December 24, 1865

- Founded by former Confederate veterans
- Ku Klux Klan derived from the Greek word "Kyklos"

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April, 1866

- Equal rights for African Americans
- The President tried to veto it but it was overturned

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May 1, 1866

- Police killed 46 African Americans
- Destroyed 90 houses
- Occurred in Memphis, Tennessee

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March 2, 1867- March 11, 1868

- African American Men can vote
- Former Confederacy into five military districts

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June, 1870

- Ignited by President Ulysses
-  Treaty during the later Reconstruction ERA

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July 28, 1868
- Guarantees equal protection for African Americans
-  Passed by the Senate June 8, 1866

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November 3, 1868

- Protected rights of former enslaved African Americans
- Expanded Republican influence

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Winter 1868

- Southern states help new constitutional conventions
- Freedmen could vote and run for public office

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February 3, 1870

- Expands votes to all male citizens
- Every race included

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April 13, 1973

- 62- 153 black militia men were killed
- Killed by Ku Klux Klan

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1875

- Created by white southern democrats
- White insurgency during Reconstruction Era

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After the 1876 election

- Removing federal troops from the South
- Unwritten deal that settled a dispute