# data[].attributes.body
The act provided freemen with food, shelter, clothing , medical services.

There was about 4 million newly freed slaves
More than 1,000 black schools were built

# data[].attributes.body
President Lincoln was the 16th president of the U.S.

John Wilkes Booth was the man who assassinated president Lincoln
Lincoln was 56 years old when he died

# data[].attributes.body
Andrew Johnson was Lincolns Vice president he too office after Lincoln was assassinated
Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views.

# data[].attributes.body
Black codes governed the conduct of African Americans (free and not freed black)
These codes were used mostly in the Southern states
Freed blacks were denied equal political rights, right to vote, and attend public school

# data[].attributes.body
Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery

Congress required former Confederate states to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment
William Seward authored this amendment

# data[].attributes.body
Six Confederate veterans, meeting in Pulaski, Tennessee, formed a secret society called the Ku Klux Klan
KKK morphed from a social fraternity to a violent group that sought to push back against key Reconstruction policies championed by Radical Republicans in Congress- policies that for the first time enfranchised former African-American slaves.

# data[].attributes.body
On this day Republicans-dominated Congress enacted a landmark Civil Rights Act, overriding a veto by Presidents Andrew Johnson.
The Act was meant offer protection to Southern slaves freed in the aftermath of Civil War.

It sought to negate the SOuth's so-called Black codes, which undermined the end of slavery as mandated by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

# data[].attributes.body
The racial violence was ignited by political, social, and racial tensions following the American Civil War, in the early stage of Reconstruction.

About 46 blacks ad been killed. 285 people got injured and five rapes.
During the post-Civil War period

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The Civil War Preview: 1866 Memphis Massacre

# data[].attributes.body
Divided the Southern states into military districts

Guaranteed African American men the right to vote in state elections
Sent Federal troops to the South oversee the establishment of state governments that were more democratic

# data[].attributes.body
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States-including enslaved people and guaranteed all citizen "equal protection of the laws."

Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal Protection.
All persons born or naturalized in the United Staes, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the U.S. and the state wherein they reside.

# data[].attributes.body
Southern states exported goods and raw materials and feared that the Northern States would take unfair advantage.

South agreed to no require two-thirds passage in bot houses to regulate commerce

Three major compromises were the Great compromise, the Three Fifths comprise, and the Electoral College.

# data[].attributes.body
15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.

Offered greater protections for suffrage

Important step in the struggle voting rights for African Americans and it laid the groundwork for future civil rights activism.

# data[].attributes.body
Mississippi Plan was developed by white Democrats as part of white insurgency during the Reconstruction Era in the Southern United States.

Democrats wanted to regain political control of the legislature and governor's office.

Democrats did not regain the power to vote until the late 1960s when the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed to authorize federal oversight of state practices and protect citizens' right to vote.

# data[].attributes.body
Military was removed from the South
A Southern was named cabinet
Federal spending to rebuild the South